strtrim {base} | R Documentation

## Trim Character Strings to Specified Widths

### Description

Trim character strings to specified display widths.

### Usage

    strtrim(x, width)

### Arguments

`x` | a character vector, or an object which can be coerced to a character vector.
`width` | Positive integer values: recycled to the length of `x`.

### Details

‘Width’ is interpreted as the display width in a monospaced font. What happens with non-printable characters (such as backspace, tab) is implementation-dependent and may depend on the locale (e.g. they may be included in the count or they may be omitted).

Using this function rather than `substr` is important when there might be double-width characters in character vectors

### Value

A character vector of the same length as `x`.

### Examples

    strtrim(c("abcdef", "abcdef", "abcdef"), c(1,5,10))

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