R help - Jun 2008 - removing blanks from a string

Hi
Is there a way to remove blank characters from the end of strings in a
vector? Something like the =TRIM functions of the OpenOffice
spreadsheet. E.g.,
a <- c("hola    ", "Yes ", "hello           ") 
# I'd like to get:
c("hola", "Yes", "hello")

Thanks

Juli


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Is this what you want:
> x <- c("hola    ", "Yes ", "hello          
")
> gsub(" *$", "", x)
[1] "hola"  "Yes"  
"hello"
>
>

On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 4:34 AM, juli pausas <pausas at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi
> Is there a way to remove blank characters from the end of strings in a
> vector? Something like the =TRIM functions of the OpenOffice
> spreadsheet. E.g.,
> a <- c("hola    ", "Yes ", "hello          
")    # I'd like to get:
> c("hola", "Yes", "hello")
>
> Thanks
>
> Juli
>
>
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> http://www.ceam.es/pausas
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