Standardize character Vectors — std

std_chr() standardizes character vectors to ASCII text with no unnecessary whitespace and a given case. By default, it will retain newlines inside text, though it will condense consecutive newlines and any carriage returns into a single newline.

Usage

std_chr(
  x,
  case = c("upper", "lower", "title", "sentence"),
  keep_inner_newlines = TRUE,
  na = "^$"
)

Arguments

x: A character vector
case: The case to convert to. NULL will skip case conversion.
keep_inner_newlines: Whether to retain line breaks inside text. FALSE will treat newlines and carriage returns identically to any other whitespace.
na: Regex patterns to consider NA. Passed to stringr::str_detect(). Can be a vector of patterns.

Value

The standardized character vector