Removes leading and/or trailing space(s) from a character vector. By default, it removes both leading and trailing spaces.
trim.space(
x,
what = c("both", "leading", "trailing", "none"),
space.regex = "[:space:]",
...
)a character vector which values need whitespace trimming
which part of the string should be trimmed. Defaults to both which removes trailing and leading spaces. If none, no trimming will be performed.
a character value containing a regex that defines a space character
additional arguments for gsub function
a character vector with (hopefully) trimmed spaces