trimws | R Documentation |
Remove leading and/or trailing whitespace from character strings.
trimws(x, which = c("both", "left", "right"), whitespace = "[ \t\r\n]")
x |
a character vector |
which |
a character string specifying whether to remove both
leading and trailing whitespace (default), or only leading
( |
whitespace |
a string specifying a regular expression to match (one character of) “white space”, see Details for alternatives to the default. |
Internally, sub(re, "", *, perl = TRUE)
, i.e., PCRE
library regular expressions are used.
For portability, the default ‘whitespace’ is the character class
[ \t\r\n]
(space, horizontal tab, carriage return,
newline). Alternatively, [\h\v]
is a good (PCRE)
generalization to match all Unicode horizontal and vertical white
space characters, see also https://www.pcre.org.
x <- " Some text. " x trimws(x) trimws(x, "l") trimws(x, "r") ## Unicode --> need "stronger" 'whitespace' to match all : tt <- "text with unicode 'non breakable space'." xu <- paste(" \t\v", tt, "\u00a0 \n\r") (tu <- trimws(xu, whitespace = "[\\h\\v]")) stopifnot(identical(tu, tt))
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