trim: Trim white-space from either side of string

In arestrom/remisc: Some simple utility functions for personal use

Description

Removes white-space before and after each string in a vector of strings. There is a base R function trimws that should be preferred. The trim function is being maintained here strictly for backward compatibility and to avoid breaking code.

Usage

trim(x)

Arguments

x	a character vector

Value

A vector x of strings with white-space removed

See Also

trimws for a base R function

Examples

# Example vector
fish_code = c("STHD ", " CHUM", " PINK ", "COHO")

# Remove the white-space
trim(fish_code)

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