# clean_redcap_name — clean_redcap_name • REDCapCAST
Stepwise removal on non-alphanumeric characters, trailing white space, substitutes spaces for underscores and converts to lower case. Trying to make up for different naming conventions.

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# clean_redcap_name

Source: `R/utils.r`
`clean_redcap_name.Rd`

Stepwise removal on non-alphanumeric characters, trailing white space, substitutes spaces for underscores and converts to lower case. Trying to make up for different naming conventions.

## Usage

    clean_redcap_name(x)

## Arguments

x

  vector or data frame for cleaning

## Value

vector or data frame, same format as input

## Examples

    "Research!, ne:ws? and c;l-.ls" |> clean_redcap_name()
    #> [1] "research_news_and_clls"
    "8_new_TEST_" |> clean_redcap_name()
    #> [1] "8_new_test"