Try this: gsub("^\\s+|\\s+$", "", " this is random text ")
On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Andrew Leeser <aml05willi...@yahoo.com>wrote: > I am looking for a way to trim leading and trailing spaces in a character > string in R. For example: > > " this is random text " > > should become: > > "this is random text". > > I have a short function to perform this task as follows: > > trim <- function(str){ > str <- sub("^ +", "", str) > str <- sub(" +$", "", 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]] > > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > -- Henrique Dallazuanna Curitiba-Paraná-Brasil 25° 25' 40" S 49° 16' 22" O [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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