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Clean and format string aesthetics

Source: R/FUNCTIONS_STRINGS.R
string_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

string_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.

See also

proper

Examples

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