[R] removing blanks from a string

[jim holtman]

Is this what you want:

> x <- c("hola    ", "Yes ", "hello           ")
> gsub(" *$", "", x)
[1] "hola"  "Yes"   "hello"
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On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 4:34 AM, juli pausas <pausas at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
> Is there a way to remove blank characters from the end of strings in a
> vector? Something like the =TRIM functions of the OpenOffice
> spreadsheet. E.g.,
> a <- c("hola    ", "Yes ", "hello           ")    # I'd like to get:
> c("hola", "Yes", "hello")
>
> Thanks
>
> Juli
>
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