Add "stripspace" program to clean up email commentary

Remove multiple empty lines, and empty lines at beginning and end.

Makefile

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ CC=gcc
 CFLAGS=-Wall -O2
 HOME=$(shell echo $$HOME)
 
-PROGRAMS=mailsplit mailinfo
+PROGRAMS=mailsplit mailinfo stripspace
 SCRIPTS=dotest applypatch
 
 all: $(PROGRAMS)

applypatch

@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ if [ -n "$signoff" -a -f "$signoff" ]; then
 	cat $signoff >> $MSGFILE
 fi
 
-(echo "[PATCH] $SUBJECT" ; echo ; cat $MSGFILE ) > $final
+(echo "[PATCH] $SUBJECT" ; if [ -s $MSGFILE ]; then echo ; cat $MSGFILE; fi ) > $final
 
 f=0
 [ -f $query_apply ] || f=1

dotest

@@ -20,7 +20,8 @@ mailsplit $1 .dotest || exit 1
 for i in .dotest/*
 do
 	mailinfo .dotest/msg .dotest/patch .dotest/file < $i > .dotest/info || exit 1
-	applypatch .dotest/msg .dotest/patch .dotest/file .dotest/info "$2"
+	stripspace < .dotest/msg > .dotest/msg-clean
+	applypatch .dotest/msg-clean .dotest/patch .dotest/file .dotest/info "$2"
 	ret=$?
 	if [ $ret -ne 0 ]; then
 		# 2 is a special exit code from applypatch to indicate that

stripspace.c

@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <string.h>
+#include <ctype.h>
+
+/*
+ * Remove empty lines from the beginning and end.
+ *
+ * Turn multiple consecutive empty lines into just one
+ * empty line.
+ */
+static void cleanup(char *line)
+{
+	int len = strlen(line);
+
+	if (len > 1 && line[len-1] == '\n') {
+		do {
+			unsigned char c = line[len-2];
+			if (!isspace(c))
+				break;
+			line[len-2] = '\n';
+			len--;
+			line[len] = 0;
+		} while (len > 1);
+	}
+}
+
+int main(int argc, char **argv)
+{
+	int empties = -1;
+	char line[1024];
+
+	while (fgets(line, sizeof(line), stdin)) {
+		cleanup(line);
+
+		/* Not just an empty line? */
+		if (line[0] != '\n') {
+			if (empties > 0)
+				putchar('\n');
+			empties = 0;
+			fputs(line, stdout);
+			continue;
+		}
+		if (empties < 0)
+			continue;
+		empties++;
+	}
+	return 0;
+}