left_right: Left or Right N characters of a string

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Left or Right N characters of a string

Description

This functions lets the user extract the first or last n characters of a string or vector of strings.

Usage

left(string, n = 1)

right(string, n = 1)

Arguments

string	String or Vector.
n	Integer. How many characters starting on right/left?

Value

Character. Trimmed strings.

See Also

Other Data Wrangling: balance_data(), categ_reducer(), cleanText(), date_cuts(), date_feats(), file_name(), formatHTML(), holidays(), impute(), normalize(), num_abbr(), ohe_commas(), ohse(), quants(), removenacols(), replaceall(), replacefactor(), textFeats(), textTokenizer(), vector2text(), year_month(), zerovar()

Examples

left("Bernardo", 3)
right(c("Bernardo", "Lares", "V"), 3)

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