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Collapse and Trim Whitespace

Source: R/prep_name.R
trim_spaces.Rd

Removes leading and trailing whitespace and collapses runs of internal whitespace to a single space.

Usage

trim_spaces(x)

Arguments

x

A character vector.

Value

A character vector with normalized whitespace.

Examples

trim_spaces("  JOHN   Q   PUBLIC  ")
#> [1] "JOHN Q PUBLIC"