This function is mostly a wrapper around str_squish,
with the additional option to remove hyphens at the ends of lines.
Usage
squish_whitespace(text, remove_terminal_hyphens = TRUE)
Arguments
- text
A character vector to clean.
- remove_terminal_hyphens
Logical; should hyphens at the end of lines
after a word be removed? For example, "un-\nbroken" would become
"unbroken".
Value
The character vector with spacing at the start and end removed, and
with internal spacing reduced to a single space character each.
Examples
sample_text <- "This had many space char-\\nacters."
squish_whitespace(sample_text)
#> [1] "This had many space char-\\nacters."