Hi, What's the best way of dropping leading or trailing blanks from a character string?
The only thing I can think of is using sub() to replace blanks with null strings, but I don't know if there is a better way (I also don't know how to represent the trailing blank in a regular expression). Thanks, Doug Grove ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help