Remove leading and/or trailing whitespace from character strings.
trimws(x, which = c("both", "left", "right"))a character vector
a character string specifying whether to remove both
leading and trailing whitespace (default), or only leading
("left") or trailing ("right"). Can be abbreviated.
For portability, ‘whitespace’ is taken as the character class
[ \t\r\n] (space, horizontal tab, line feed, carriage return).
x <- " Some text. "
x
trimws(x)
trimws(x, "l")
trimws(x, "r")
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