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Clean and format string aesthetics

Source: R/FUNCTIONS_STRINGS.R
str_aes.Rd

Replaces a list of separator characters (e.g. ".", "_", HTML tags) with spaces, trims leading and trailing whitespace, collapses internal whitespace, and optionally applies proper case.

Usage

str_aes(
  vector,
  characterlist = c(".", "_", "-", ",", "$", "<p>", "</p>", "<br>", "<br/>", "<B>",
    "</B>", "<BR/>", "|", "/", "&nbsp"),
  proper = TRUE
)

Arguments

vector

Character vector to clean.

characterlist

Character vector of strings to treat as separators, each replaced by a single space. Defaults to common punctuation and HTML tags including ".", "_", "-", "<p>", "<br>", "&nbsp", and others.

proper

Logical. If TRUE, capitalises the first letter and lowercases the rest of each string. Default is TRUE.

Value

A character vector of the same length as vector with separators replaced, whitespace normalised, and optional proper casing.

Examples

vector <- c("TES.T", "TES<p>T", "TES&nbspT")
str_aes(vector = vector)
#> [1] "Tes t" "Tes t" "Tes t"
str_aes(vector = vector, proper = FALSE)
#> [1] "TES T" "TES T" "TES T"
str_aes(vector = vector, proper = TRUE)
#> [1] "Tes t" "Tes t" "Tes t"