Remove Leading whitespaces from a String in R Language – trimws() Function

In this article, we are going to see how to remove whitespaces from a String in R Programming Language.

R – trimws() Function

trimws() function in R Language is used to trim the leading white spaces. It shrinks an object by removing outermost rows and columns with the same values.

Syntax: trimws(x)

Parameters:

• x: Object or character string

Example 1: Remove Leading and Trailing Whitespace

R

# R program to illustrate
# Removing of leading whitespaces

# Create example character string
my_text <- "     . This is a trim     function     example "

# Apply trimws function in R
print(trimws(my_text))

Output:

".  This is a trim       function      example"

Here in the above code, we have created a character string and have white spaces in it, So we have used the trimws() function to remove the white spaces.

Example 2: Remove whitespaces from a String in R

R

# R program to illustrate
# Removing of leading whitespaces

# Create example character string
my_text <- "     Geeks_For_Geeks     "

# Apply trimws function in R
print(trimws(my_text))

Output:

"Geeks_For_Geeks     "