[R] Trimming blanks from the ends of strings

[Ross Ihaka]

s-luppescu at uchicago.edu wrote:
> 
> This is pretty mundane, but I much appreciate the help. I have character
> variables that I have read in from 40-character-wide fields. I want to remove
> the spaces from the ends so I can use them right justified (adj=1) as labels on
> the vertical axis of a graph.

Something like

  sub("^  *", "", sub("  *$", "", x))

should do the trick.  E.g.

  > sub("^  *", "", sub("  *$", "", "  padded  "))
  [1] "padded"


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