[R] Re moving white space help

[jim holtman]

Is this what you want:

> x <- "   and fgh-    "
> gsub(" +", "", x)
[1] "andfgh-"


On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Ramyathulasingam
<Ramya.Thulasingam at rndsystems.com> wrote:
>
> Hi  there
>
> I am trying to remove the white space and replace it with nothing but didnt
> have any luck with that
>
> x <- and fgh-
>
> i can replace the comma using gsub
> gsub("\\-","",x)
> but i cant replace the white space with nothing.
>
> Ramya
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Jim Holtman
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