R: Paste two strings without space

Question

I want to merge following two strings in R (and remove the spaces). I was using paste but I was not able to get desired results.

a <- "big earth"
b <- "small moon"

c <- paste(a,b, sep = "")

I want to have a c <- "bigearthsmallmoon" Thank you very much for the help.

I think you are looking for https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5992082/how-to-remove-all-whitespace-from-a-string — Ronak Shah, May 25 '20 at 10:43

sindri_baldur · Accepted Answer · 2020-05-25T10:35:13.173

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You can paste the strings together into one with paste(). Then you can use gsub() to remove all spaces:

gsub(" ", "", paste(a, b))
# [1] "bigearthsmallmoon"

edited May 25 '20 at 10:35

answered May 25 '20 at 10:33

sindri_baldur

thank you so much for quick reply. It worked w/o any issues. – Behzod A May 25 '20 at 10:35

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 24 '21 at 02:16

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c <- paste(a, b, sep = "")

answered Nov 24 '21 at 02:16

Qian Chen

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