[R] Trim function ?

[Ernesto Jardim]

Hi

I did it in linux using:

cat file.blanks | tr -d '[:blank:]' | cat > file.noblanks

The rational is the same.

Thanks.

EJ

On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 17:05, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk wrote:
> On 9 May 2002, Ernesto Jardim wrote:
> 
> > I've imported some data from a oracle database and the strings have a
> > lot of blank space (because of the delimiter). I want to remove these
> > blanks space with something similar to a trim function.
> >
> > I don't find a trim function or something similar. Can someone give a
> > help on this ?
> 
> sub() can do this (and far, far more).  Do you want to trim leading or
> trailing spaces or all spaces or what.  For trailing spaces
> sub(" +$", "", x)
> 
> will do what you want.  For spaces both ends and no embedded spaces
> sub(" *([^ ]+) *", "\\1", x)
> 
> and so on.
> 
> -- 
> Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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