Thank you very much... this command is exactly what I need. I only had
something in the back of my mind that there is another command similar to trim
to suppress blanks/spaces.
But however, the gsub command works great...
> c <- "abc def ghi"
> gsub(" +"," ", c)
[1] "abc def ghi"
>
On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I'm have a character vector and would like to suppress the blanks if there
> are more than one after the other.
>
> Example:
>
> Character value is: "abc def ghi"
> The result should be: "abc def ghi"
>
> I know that it's possible to delete the leading blanks with the command
> "trim". But how can I delete blanks within a character?
>
> Thank you very much in advance for an answer
> Thomas
>
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