[R] trim a string

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Better code for this purpose is in example(grep).

`white space' and `a blank' are not necessarily the same thing.

On Fri, 17 Jun 2005, Liaw, Andy wrote:

> http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/14493.html
>
> Andy
>
>> From: Omar Lakkis
>>
>> 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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