[R] Handling character string

[Erik Iverson]

Megh Dal wrote:
> Dear all, Is there any R function to say these 2 character strings
> "temp"  and " temp" are actually same? If I type following code R
> says there are indeed different :
>> "temp"  == " temp"[1] FALSE

You don't say how you're defining "same", but it definitely requires 
more explanation, since they are not the same.  Why should those two 
strings be the same in your mind?  Do you want to remove leading white 
space, all white space, just one space, etc?

You might find the examples in ?sub useful.