R: Remove leading and trailing white space.

strTrim {pracma} | R Documentation

## Remove leading and trailing white space.

### Description

Removes leading and trailing white space from a string.

### Usage

    strTrim(s)
    deblank(s)

### Arguments

`s` | character string or character vector

### Details

`strTrim` removes leading and trailing white space from a string or from all strings in a character vector.

`deblank` removes trailing white space only from a string or from all strings in a character vector.

### Value

A character string or character vector with (leading and) trailing white space.

### See Also

`strjust`

### Examples

    s <- c("  abc", "abc   ", " abc ", " a b c ", "abc", "a b c")
    strTrim(s)
    deblank(s)

[Package pracma version 2.0.4 Index]