Description
Removes leading and/or trailing space(s) from a character
vector value. By default, it removes both leading and
trailing spaces. In order to get fine-tune control on
trailing, pass appropriate logical values to
leading and trailing arguments.Usage
trim.space(x, leading = TRUE, trailing = TRUE,
re = "[:space:]", ...)Arguments
x
a character vector which values need whitespace
trimming
leading
a logical value indicating if leading
spaces should be removed (defaults to FALSE)
trailing
a logical value indicating if trailing
spaces should be removed (defaults to TRUE)
re
a character value containing a regex that
defines a space character
...
additional arguments for gsub
function Value
- a character vector with removed spaces