How to replace a series of whitespace with just one in a string in R?

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How do I replace a series of blank spaces with just one, in R?

For example, suppose we have a string:

x <- "      non    non    non    non"

I want to make the content of x: "non non non non non non non non".

r regex
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    I have no R skills, but the regular expression for finding the spaces would be \s*, then just replace by a space.

  • Thank you, I found the solution!

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Two possible solutions:

gsub("\\s+", " ", x)

and

gsub("[[:space:]]+", " ", x)
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    Spoke a + in the second solution gsub("[[:space:]]+", " ", x)

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