[R] trim a string

[Francisco J. Zagmutt]

RSiteSearch("trim") will give you a lot of answers.  You cal also use the 
higher level function trim{R.oo} i.e.:

library(R.oo)
x="    e  "
trim(x)
[1] "e"


>From: Omar Lakkis <uofiowa at gmail.com>
>Reply-To: Omar Lakkis <uofiowa at gmail.com>
>To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
>Subject: [R] trim a string
>Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 13:34:36 -0400
>
>How to trim the leading and trailing white space off of a string?
>
>  If the variable is "  E              " I need to convert it to "E".
>
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