Remove Leading whitespaces from a String in R Language – 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 program to illustrate# Removing of leading whitespaces # Create example character stringmy_text <- " . This is a trim function example " # Apply trimws function in Rprint(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:
# R program to illustrate# Removing of leading whitespaces # Create example character stringmy_text <- " Geeks_For_Geeks " # Apply trimws function in Rprint(trimws(my_text)) |
Output:
"Geeks_For_Geeks "
