| trimws {base} | R Documentation |
Remove Leading/Trailing Whitespace
Description
Remove leading and/or trailing whitespace from character strings.
Usage
trimws(x, which = c("both", "left", "right"))
Arguments
x |
a character vector |
which |
a character string specifying whether to remove both
leading and trailing whitespace (default), or only leading
( |
Details
For portability, ‘whitespace’ is taken as the character class
[ \t\r\n] (space, horizontal tab, line feed, carriage return).
Examples
x <- " Some text. "
x
trimws(x)
trimws(x, "l")
trimws(x, "r")