I have NO knowledge of regexpr, but someone helped me out once and I put
it into a function I call "trim". Here is the line I use:
function(x) gsub("^[[:space:]]+|[[:space:]]+$", "", x)
One more thing you can try. Hope it helps, Roger
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Sent: Friday, January 13, 2012 7:40 AM
To: Vikram Bahure
Cc: r-help@r-project.org
Subject: [R] Odp: Remove space from string
Hi
>
> Dear R users,
>
> I have some trivial query.
>
> I have a string, I want to remove space from the string.
>
> For eg.
>
> Input:
> a <- " Remove space "
>
> Output required:
> "Removespace"
It seems to be simple. Even myself with very poor knowledge of regexpr
can suggest solution.
gsub(" ", "", a)
Regards
Petr
>
> I tried using str_trim but only removes end spaces. library(stringr).
>
> Regards
> Vikram
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