John Fox <jfox <at> mcmaster.ca> writes:
: This is something that I sometimes want to do, so I have a little utility
: that trims blanks and tabs from the beginnings and ends of strings:
:
: trim.ws <- function(text) gsub("^[\ \t]", "", gsub("[\ \t]*$", "", text))
:
This can be reduced to a single gsub like this:
gsub("^[[:space:]]+|[[:space:]]+$", "", text)
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