trim_ws {bpa}

Remove Leading/Trailing Whitespace

Description

Remove leading and/or trailing whitespace from character strings.

Usage

trim_ws(x, which = c("both", "left", "right"))

Arguments

x

A data frame or vector.

which

A character string specifying whether to remove both leading and trailing whitespace (default), or only leading ("left") or trailing ("right"). Can be abbreviated.

Examples

# Toy example
d <- data.frame(x = c(" a ", "b ", "c"),
                y = c("   1 ", "2", " 3"),
                z = c(4, 5, 6))
print(d)  # print data as is
trim_ws(d)  # print data with whitespace trimmed off
sapply(trim_ws(d), class)  # check that column types are preserved