clean.text {StabPerf}R Documentation

Removes all non-alphanumeric characters from a string/array of strings

Description

Replaces all characters that are not w (i.e. not A-Z or a-z or 0-9 with a replacement character/string

Usage

clean.text(..., rep="_") gsub("\W", rep, ...)

Arguments

... character. Passed to gsub
rep character. Replacement string, default:_

Value

character Modified strings

See Also

gsub

Examples

clean.text(rep="_BAD_", c("wow!", "*13junk1()_/"))
# Returns: c("wow_BAD_" "_BAD_13junk1_BAD__BAD___BAD_"

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