remove_blanks: Remove Blanks

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Remove Blanks

Description

Removes leading and trailing blanks or both. Can also remove all blanks from a character or normalize multiple blanks to single ones.

Usage

remove_blanks(data_frame, variable, which = "all")

Arguments

data_frame	A data frame which contains the character variables from which blanks should be removed.
variable	Variable name of the one from which to remove blanks.
which	"all" by default. Can be "leading", "trailing", "trim", "normalize" or "all". Determines which blanks should be removed

Value

Returns a character vector with removed blanks.

See Also

Other character manipulating functions: concat(), sub_string()

Examples

# Example data frame
my_data <- dummy_data(100)
my_data[["blanks"]] <- " This  is  a  test "

# Remove blanks
my_data[["leading"]]   <- my_data |> remove_blanks(blanks, which = "leading")
my_data[["trailing"]]  <- my_data |> remove_blanks(blanks, which = "trailing")
my_data[["trim"]]      <- my_data |> remove_blanks(blanks, which = "trim")
my_data[["all"]]       <- my_data |> remove_blanks(blanks, which = "all")
my_data[["normalize"]] <- my_data |> remove_blanks(blanks, which = "normalize")

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