clean_character_columns: Clean character columns

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Clean character columns

Description

Removes leading and trailing whitespace from all character columns in a data frame using trimws.

Usage

clean_character_columns(df)

Arguments

df	A data frame or tibble containing character columns to be cleaned

Details

The function uses dplyr::across to apply trimws to all columns that are of type character. The original data frame structure is preserved, only the content of character columns is modified.

Value

A data frame of the same structure as the input, but with whitespace removed from all character columns

Examples

df <- data.frame(
  name = c(" John ", "Jane  ", "  Bob"),
  age = c(25, 30, 35),
  city = c("New York ", " London", " Paris ")
)
clean_df <- clean_character_columns(df)

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