[R] Suppress blanks/spaces in character

[thsudler at swissonline.ch]

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 thsudler at swissonline.ch 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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