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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