str_normal

The generic normalization that underpins functions like <code>normal_city()</code> and
<code>normal_address()</code>. This function simply chains together three
<code>stringr::str_*()</code> functions:<ol>
<li>Convert to uppercase.</li>
<li>Replace punctuation with whitespaces.</li>
<li>Trim and squish excess whitespace.</li>
</ol>

Explore and normalize American campaign finance
data. Created by the Investigative Reporting Workshop to facilitate
work on The Accountability Project, an effort to collect public data
into a central, standard database that is more easily searched:
<https://publicaccountability.org/>.

Kiernan Nicholls

campfin

Wrangle Campaign Finance Data

Investigative Reporting Workshop 

Yanqi Xu

Schuyler Erle

str_normal function

<dl><dt>x</dt>
<dd>A character string to normalize.</dd>
<dt>case</dt>
<dd>logical; whether <code><a href="https://stringr.tidyverse.org/reference/case.html">stringr::str_to_upper()</a></code> should be called.</dd>
<dt>punct</dt>
<dd>character; A character string to replace most punctuation with.</dd>
<dt>quote</dt>
<dd>logical; whether <code><a href="https://stringr.tidyverse.org/reference/str_replace.html">stringr::str_replace_all()</a></code> should be called
on double quotes.</dd>
<dt>squish</dt>
<dd>logical; whether <code><a href="https://stringr.tidyverse.org/reference/str_trim.html">stringr::str_squish()</a></code> should be called.</dd></dl>

Arguments

Normalize a character string — str_normal

<dl>

<dt>x</dt>
<dd>A character string to normalize.</dd>


<dt>case</dt>
<dd>logical; whether <code><a href='https://stringr.tidyverse.org/reference/case.html'>stringr::str_to_upper()</a></code> should be called.</dd>


<dt>punct</dt>
<dd>character; A character string to replace most punctuation with.</dd>


<dt>quote</dt>
<dd>logical; whether <code><a href='https://stringr.tidyverse.org/reference/str_replace.html'>stringr::str_replace_all()</a></code> should be called
on double quotes.</dd>


<dt>squish</dt>
<dd>logical; whether <code><a href='https://stringr.tidyverse.org/reference/str_trim.html'>stringr::str_squish()</a></code> should be called.</dd>

</dl>

str_normal: Normalize a character string

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