#ident "$URL: svn://elmer/devel/SVN/SDDAS/trunk/libant/TrimEndNumber.c $ %D% SwRI"
#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif
/* TrimEndNumber */

#include <ctype.h>		/* for isspace,etc. */
#include <string.h>		/* for strlen,etc. */

/*
  TrimEndNumber -- trim # and preceding blanks from end of string
                   returns ptr to # trimmed off string
		   STRING MUST HAVE # at end of it or attrocities occur
*/
char *
TrimEndNumber(char  *desc)
{
  char *last;			/* points to last char of string to keep    */
  
  last = desc + strlen(desc) - 1;
  while (isspace((int) *last))
    --last;
  while (isdigit((int) *last) || (*last == '-'))
    --last;
  while (isspace((int) *last))
    --last;
  *(last+1) = '\0';
  return last+2;
}
#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif