Clean up a free text string

Take a messy string and clean it up by converting it to title case, removing any superfluous whitespace and optionally removing any punctuation. The use case is to make text style uniform to aid with matching.

Usage

clean_up_free_text(
  string,
  case_to = c("upper", "lower", "sentence", "title", "none"),
  remove_punct = TRUE
)

Arguments

string

string variable

case_to

the case to convert the string to

remove_punct

Should any punctuation be removed? (default TRUE)

Value

The cleaned string

Examples

clean_up_free_text("hiwSDS SD. h")
#> [1] "Hiwsds Sd H"