trim: Trim leading and trailing whitespaces from strings
In sjmisc: Data and Variable Transformation Functions

Description Usage Arguments Value Examples

Trims leading and trailing whitespaces from strings or character vectors.

trim(x)

`x`	Character vector or string, or a list or data frame with such vectors. Function is vectorized, i.e. vector may have a length greater than 1. See 'Examples'.

Trimmed x, i.e. with leading and trailing spaces removed.

trim("white space at end ")
trim(" white space at start and end ")
trim(c(" string1 ", "   string2", "string 3   "))

tmp <- data.frame(a = c(" string1 ", "   string2", "string 3   "),
                  b = c(" strong one  ", "    string two", "  third string "),
                  c = c(" str1 ", "   str2", "str3   "))
tmp
trim(tmp)