Togaware DATA MINING
Desktop Survival Guide
by Graham Williams
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Trim Whitespace

A simple function to trim whitespace from the beginning and end of a string, which you could then use to more simply split a string into a vector, uses gsub:



> trim.ws <- function(text) 
+            gsub("^[[:blank:]]*", "", gsub("[[:blank:]]*$", "", text))
> s <- "  a b    c "
> strsplit(trim.ws(s), " +")
[1] "a" "b" "c"



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