Remove leading and trailing white space.

Removes leading and trailing white space from a string.

strTrim(s)
deblank(s)

Arguments

s

character string or character vector

Details

strTrim removes leading and trailing white space from a string or from all strings in a character vector.

deblank removes trailing white space only from a string or from all strings in a character vector.

Value

A character string or character vector with (leading and) trailing white space.

See also

strjust

Examples

s <- c("  abc", "abc   ", " abc ", " a b c ", "abc", "a b c")
strTrim(s)
#> [1] "abc"   "abc"   "abc"   "a b c" "abc"   "a b c"
deblank(s)
#> [1] "  abc"  "abc"    " abc"   " a b c" "abc"    "a b c"