MQMF (version 0.1.0)

removeEmpty: removeEmpty removes empty strings from a vector of strings

Description

removeEmpty removes empty strings from a vector of strings. Such spaces often created by spurious commas at the end of lines. It also removes strings made up only of spaces and removes spaces from inside of inidivdual chunks of text. So, should be useful when reading in data from a custom csv file when parsing different formats

Usage

removeEmpty(invect)

Arguments

invect

a vector of input strings, possibly containing empty strings

Value

a possibly NULL vector of strings

Examples

# NOT RUN {
x <- c("1","","2","","   ","3"," ","4","","a string","end")
x
length(x)
length(removeEmpty(x))
removeEmpty(x)
# }