On Jul 7, 2010, at 9:23 AM, Andrew Leeser wrote:
I am looking for a way to trim leading and trailing spaces in a
character
string in R. For example:
" this is random text "
should become:
"this is random text".
I have a short function to perform this task as follows:
trim <- function(str){
str <- sub("^ +", "", str)
str <- sub(" +$", "", str)
}
While this function does seem to work, I am curious if there's
anything built
into R that I can use instead, as that would be preferable.
I have been using the trim function in package gdata. The code is
quite similar to yours.
--
David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT
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