remove_space: Remove and normalize spaces

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Remove and normalize spaces

Description

Remove leading/trailing spaces and normalize multiple spaces between words in character strings.

Usage

remove_space(
  x,
  trim_start = TRUE,
  trim_end = FALSE,
  collapse_multiple = TRUE,
  preserve_newlines = TRUE
)

Arguments

x	A vector of character strings.
trim_start	Logical value, default is 'TRUE'. Whether to remove leading spaces before the first word.
trim_end	Logical value, default is 'FALSE'. Whether to remove trailing spaces after the last word.
collapse_multiple	Logical value, default is 'TRUE'. Whether to collapse multiple consecutive spaces between words into a single space.
preserve_newlines	Logical value, default is 'TRUE'. Whether to preserve newline characters when collapsing spaces.

Value

A character vector with spaces normalized according to the specified parameters.

Examples

x <- c(
  " hello  world ",
  "  test   case  ",
  "no space",
  "   multiple   spaces   "
)
remove_space(x)
remove_space(x, trim_start = FALSE)
remove_space(x, trim_end = TRUE)
remove_space(x, collapse_multiple = FALSE)
remove_space(
  x,
  trim_start = FALSE,
  trim_end = FALSE,
  collapse_multiple = FALSE
)

# with newlines
multiline <- c(
  "hello\n\n  world  ",
  "  first  \n  second  "
)
remove_space(multiline)
remove_space(multiline, preserve_newlines = FALSE)

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