textutils (version 0.2-0)

trim: Remove Leading and Trailing White Space

Description

Remove leading and/or trailing white space from character vectors.

Usage

trim(s, leading = TRUE, trailing = TRUE, perl = TRUE, …)

Arguments

s

a character vector

leading

logical

trailing

logical

perl

logical

…

arguments passed to gsub

Value

a character vector

Details

trim removes leading and trailing space, which is defined through the (Perl) regular expression \s.

The base package has a function trimws these days, so you may not actually need the function (any more).

See Also

trimws, gsub, strtrim

Examples

# NOT RUN {
s <- c("\t 2 2\n \t", "   ab  ")
trim(s)
# }