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I cannot express how clean and easily understandable your code was. I liked it so much that i took it as my base code. I added a few more lines and now the function is working perfectly, taking out excess whitespace as well as new lines and horizontal tabs.
Here have a look:

int cleanSpace( char s[])
        {
                int i = 0, j = 0, // general loop index
                    first = 0,    // first non-whitespace character
                    last = 0;     // last non-whitespace character

                // loop to find the first non-whitespace character
                // and save its position as 'first'.
                for (i = 0; s[i] != '\0'; i++)
                {
                    if (s[i] != 32 && s[i] != 9 && s[i] != 10)
                    {
                        first = i;
                        break;
                    }
                }

                // loop to find the last non-whitespace character
                // and save its position as 'last'.
                for (i = strlen(s) - 1; i > first; i--)
                {
                    if (s[i] != 32 && s[i] != 9 && s[i] != 10)
                    {
                        last = i;
                        break;
                    }
                }

                // for loop to copy all characters in string 's'
                // between 'first' & 'last' to string 's'.
                for (i = 0; first <= last ; i++)
                {
                    s[i] = s[first];
                    first++;
                }
                s[i] = '\0';
		
		//for loop to find and replace white space characters
		//with spaces.
		for(i = 0; i < strlen(s) + 1; i++)
		{
			if (s[i] >= 9 && s[i] <= 10)
			{
				s[i] = 32;
			}
		}
		
		//for loop to remove excess whitespace if there are
		//more than one consecutive whitespaces.
		i = 0;
		while (s[i] != '\0')
		{
			if(s[i] == 32 && s[i+1] == 32)
			{
				//Since excess white space was found, we shift
                                //the whole string so as to take out the
				//whitespace, regardless of what character is
				//being copied.
				for(j = i; s[j] != '\0'; j++)
				{
         				s[j] = s[j+1];
				}
			} 
			//If whitespace was not found, we increase index 'i' 
                       //and start looking at the next character.
			else {
				i++;
			}
		}

		//Return the length of the "NEW" string 's'.
                return strlen(s);
      }

For everyone who might read, I give full credit to oogabooga for the code. I only added a few lines!!