Awkward wording Trim Leading and Trailing Whitespace about openrefine-socialsci HOT 2 CLOSED

That is a good suggestion, @ACDMertin, thanks! It is easy to overlook awkward wording when you get more experienced, so your fresh look is very welcome 😄

If you could make this suggestion into a pull request, I will happily accept it. If you don't feel comfortable doing this, please let me know and I can create the change.

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I created #138 to address this issue. The new text reads:

Sometimes spaces (or tabs, or newline characters) will be present at the beginning or end of a text cell. They may have been in the dataset that was imported, or appear when you perform operations on the data, such as splitting text. While we as humans cannot always see or notice these (especially if they are at the end of a word), a computer always sees them. We often see these spaces as unwanted variations and therefore remove them.

As of version 3.4, OpenRefine provides the option to trim (i.e. remove) leading and trailing whitespace during the import of data (see image at the top of this page). This is then applied to the data in all columns.

OpenRefine also provides a menu option to remove blank characters from the beginning and end of any entries in the column that you choose.

What do you think?

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