trim.space: Trim Spaces

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Trim Spaces

Description

Removes leading and/or trailing space(s) from a character vector. By default, it removes both leading and trailing spaces.

Usage

trim.space(
  x,
  what = c("both", "leading", "trailing", "none"),
  space.regex = "[:space:]",
  ...
)

Arguments

x	a character vector which values need whitespace trimming
what	which part of the string should be trimmed. Defaults to both which removes trailing and leading spaces. If none, no trimming will be performed.
space.regex	a character value containing a regex that defines a space character
...	additional arguments for gsub function

Value

a character vector with (hopefully) trimmed spaces

rapportools documentation built on March 22, 2022, 1:06 a.m.