diff --git a/tools/lib/string.c b/tools/lib/string.c
index 93b3d4b..f2ae1b8 100644
--- a/tools/lib/string.c
+++ b/tools/lib/string.c
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 #include <string.h>
 #include <errno.h>
 #include <linux/string.h>
+#include <linux/ctype.h>
 #include <linux/compiler.h>
 
 /**
@@ -106,3 +107,57 @@
 	}
 	return ret;
 }
+
+/**
+ * skip_spaces - Removes leading whitespace from @str.
+ * @str: The string to be stripped.
+ *
+ * Returns a pointer to the first non-whitespace character in @str.
+ */
+char *skip_spaces(const char *str)
+{
+	while (isspace(*str))
+		++str;
+	return (char *)str;
+}
+
+/**
+ * strim - Removes leading and trailing whitespace from @s.
+ * @s: The string to be stripped.
+ *
+ * Note that the first trailing whitespace is replaced with a %NUL-terminator
+ * in the given string @s. Returns a pointer to the first non-whitespace
+ * character in @s.
+ */
+char *strim(char *s)
+{
+	size_t size;
+	char *end;
+
+	size = strlen(s);
+	if (!size)
+		return s;
+
+	end = s + size - 1;
+	while (end >= s && isspace(*end))
+		end--;
+	*(end + 1) = '\0';
+
+	return skip_spaces(s);
+}
+
+/**
+ * strreplace - Replace all occurrences of character in string.
+ * @s: The string to operate on.
+ * @old: The character being replaced.
+ * @new: The character @old is replaced with.
+ *
+ * Returns pointer to the nul byte at the end of @s.
+ */
+char *strreplace(char *s, char old, char new)
+{
+	for (; *s; ++s)
+		if (*s == old)
+			*s = new;
+	return s;
+}