Re: Removing extra white space

[David L Lorenz <lorenz@usgs.gov>]

Maeve,
  The Hmisc library has a function
that will replace multiple interior spaces with a single space. The function
is sedit().

sedit("name    with  
     spaces", '  ', ' ') # replace all occurrences
of double space with a single space
[1] "name with spaces"

  It is not clear for the documentation
that this will work, but it does.
Dave

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Subject	[S] Removing extra white space

Hi

I am using S-Plus 6.2 on Windows NT and I am trying to remove extra white
spaces from a string.
I have used the strip.blanks() method to remove leading and trailing white
space, but I also want a function that will remove extra interior white
spaces,
where "name    with        spaces"
would be changed to "name with spaces",
with only one space between the words.


Thanks in anticipation for any help,
Maeve


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