> x <- "abc     def  ghi"
> gsub(" +", " ", x)
[1] "abc def ghi"
>


On 10/27/06, thsudler@swissonline.ch <thsudler@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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