Remove extra white space from between letters in R using gsub()

Question

There are a slew of answers out there on how to remove extra whitespace from between words, which is super simple. However, I\'m finding that removing extra whitespace

Answer 1

You may try this,

> x <- c("L L C", "P O BOX 123456", "NEW YORK")
> gsub("(?<=\\b\\w)\\s(?=\\w\\b)", "", x,perl=T)
[1] "LLC"           "PO BOX 123456" "NEW YORK" 

It just removes the space which exists between two single word characters.