sjmisc (version 2.8.10)

trim: Trim leading and trailing whitespaces from strings

Description

Trims leading and trailing whitespaces from strings or character vectors.

Usage

trim(x)

Value

Trimmed x, i.e. with leading and trailing spaces removed.

Arguments

x

Character vector or string, or a list or data frame with such vectors. Function is vectorized, i.e. vector may have a length greater than 1. See 'Examples'.

Examples

trim("white space at end ")
trim(" white space at start and end ")
trim(c(" string1 ", "   string2", "string 3   "))

tmp <- data.frame(a = c(" string1 ", "   string2", "string 3   "),
                  b = c(" strong one  ", "    string two", "  third string "),
                  c = c(" str1 ", "   str2", "str3   "))
tmp
trim(tmp)