memisc (version 0.97)

trimws: Trim Leading and Trailing Whitespaces

Description

trimws returns a character string with leading and/or trailing whitespaces removed. This is just a shorthand for an appropriate call to sub.

Usage

trimws(x,left=TRUE,right=TRUE)

Arguments

x

a character vector

left

logical, if TRUE leading whitespace is removed

right

logical, if TRUE trailing whitespace is removed

Value

• The character vector x with whitespace removed.

Examples

teststr <- c("Hello World!   ","I am here.  ")
  trimws(teststr)
  trimws(teststr,left=FALSE)
  trimws(teststr,right=FALSE)