trim: Trim leading and tailing spaces from string

In ribiosUtils: Utilities from and Interface to the Bioinfo-C (BIOS) Library

Description

The function trims leading and/or tailing spaces from string(s), using C function implemented in the BIOS library.

Usage

trim(x, left = " \n\r\t", right = " \n\r\t")

Arguments

x	A character string, or a vector of strings
left	Characters that are trimmed from the left side.
right	Characters that are trimmed from the right side

Details

left and right can be set to NULL. In such cases no trimming will be performed.

Value

Trimmed string(s)

Author(s)

Jitao David Zhang <[e-mail]>

Examples

myStrings <- c("This is a fine day\n",
               " Hallo Professor!",
               "  NUR DER HSV  ")
trim(myStrings)

ribiosUtils documentation built on March 13, 2020, 2:54 a.m.