strip_special_characters: Strips special characters from a voter file.

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Strips special characters from a voter file.

Description

Given a voter file and a column, returns a voter file with special characters stripped stripped from that column.

Usage

strip_special_characters(
  voter_file,
  surname_col = "last_name",
  regex = "[^A-Za-z]+",
  replace = " "
)

Arguments

voter_file	The voter file, with each row consisting of a voter.
surname_col	A string denoting the surname column.
regex	A string denoting the regular expression to use for denoting the the special characters.
replace	The replacement string for special characters.

Value

A dataframe of voters whose surname column is stripped of special characters.

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