Remove blank spaces on the right side of each element of a character vector in R

Question

My data is

student_Name= c("Sachin Tendulkar        ","Virendar Shewag            ",
           "Saurav Ganguly             ")

I want to remove the blank spaces on the right side in R.

So that my output should be "Sachin Tendulkar","Virendar Shewag","Saurav Ganguly"

Answer 1

You can use str_trim from stringr

library(stringr)
student_Name <- str_trim(student_Name, side='right')

Or use sub

sub('\\s+$', '', student_Name)
#[1] "Sachin Tendulkar" "Virendar Shewag"  "Saurav Ganguly"