[R] Question about change the length of a string.

[Jeff Newmiller]

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2261079/how-to-trim-leading-and-trailing-whitespace-in-r
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On May 18, 2017 8:57:51 PM PDT, Yen Lee <b88207001 at ntu.edu.tw> wrote:
>Hello everyone,
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>I have a question and I need your precious kind help. 
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>I am working on matching two string. However, the length of the two
>strings
>is different. For example, one is "example" (nchar=7), the other one is
>"example   " (nchar=10). The R considers them as different strings but
>they
>will be the same if I could make the first string has 10 characters,
>"example" followed by 3 spaces. However, I could not find a way to do
>it. Is
>there anyone able to provide some suggestions? 
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>I appreciate your precious time!!!!
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>Best,
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>Yen 
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