I am looking for a way to trim leading and trailing spaces in a character string in R. For example:
" this is random text " should become: "this is random text". I have a short function to perform this task as follows: trim <- function(str){ str <- sub("^ +", "", str) str <- sub(" +$", "", str) } While this function does seem to work, I am curious if there's anything built into R that I can use instead, as that would be preferable. Thanks in advance, Andrew [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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