How can I trim leading and trailing white space?

I am having some trouble with leading and trailing white space in a data.frame. For example, I look at a specific row in a data.frame based on a certain condition: > myDummy[myDummy$country == c(“Austria”),c(1,2,3:7,19)] [1] codeHelper country dummyLI dummyLMI dummyUMI [6] dummyHInonOECD dummyHIOECD dummyOECD <0 rows> (or 0-length row.names) I was wondering why I didn’t … Read more

How do I escape spaces in path for scp copy in Linux?

I’m new to linux, I want to copy a file from remote to local system… now I’m using scp command in linux system.. I have some folders or files names are with spaces, when I try to copy that file, it shows the error message: “No such file or directory” I tried: scp [email protected]:’/home/5105/test/gg/Untitled Folder/a/qy.jpg’ … Read more

Efficient way to remove ALL whitespace from String?

I’m calling a REST API and am receiving an XML response back. It returns a list of a workspace names, and I’m writing a quick IsExistingWorkspace() method. Since all workspaces consist of contiguous characters with no whitespace, I’m assuming the easiest way to find out if a particular workspace is in the list is to … Read more

How to split a string with any whitespace chars as delimiters

What regex pattern would need I to pass to java.lang.String.split() to split a String into an Array of substrings using all whitespace characters (‘ ‘, ‘\t’, ‘\n’, etc.) as delimiters? 13 s 13 Something in the lines of myString.split(“\\s+”); This groups all white spaces as a delimiter. So if I have the string: “Hello[space character][tab … Read more

Show whitespace characters in Visual Studio Code

Is it possible to show whitespace characters, like the space character, in Visual Studio Code? There doesn’t appear to be an option for it in the settings.json (though it is an option in Atom.io), and I haven’t been able to display whitespace characters using CSS. 13 s 13 VS Code 1.6.0 and Greater As mentioned … Read more

Split string on whitespace in Python [duplicate]

This question already has answers here: Split a string with unknown number of spaces as separator in Python (6 answers) Closed 4 years ago. I’m looking for the Python equivalent of String str = “many fancy word \nhello \thi”; String whiteSpaceRegex = “\\s”; String[] words = str.split(whiteSpaceRegex); [“many”, “fancy”, “word”, “hello”, “hi”] 4 s 4 … Read more