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sjmisc (version 1.8)

trim: Trim leading and trailing whitespaces from strings

Description

Trims leading and trailing whitespaces from strings or character vectors.

Usage

trim(x)

Arguments

x
Character vector or string. Function is vectorized, i.e. vector may have a length greater than 1. See 'Examples'.

Value

Trimmed x, i.e. with leading and trailing spaces removed.

Examples

Run this code
trim("white space at end ")
trim(" white space at start and end ")
trim(c(" string1 ", "   string2", "string 3   "))

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