stripWhitespace: Strip Whitespace from a Text Document

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Strip Whitespace from a Text Document

Description

Strip extra whitespace from a text document. Multiple whitespace characters are collapsed to a single blank.

Usage

stripWhitespace(x, ...)
## S3 method for class 'PlainTextDocument'
stripWhitespace(x, ...)
## S3 method for class 'character'
stripWhitespace(x, ...)

Arguments

x	A text document.
...	arguments to be passed to or from methods. Currently not used.

Value

The text document with multiple whitespace characters collapsed to a single blank.

See Also

getTransformations to list available transformation (mapping) functions.

Examples

data("crude")
crude[[1]]
stripWhitespace(crude[[1]])

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