Normalize a string by removing spaces, accents, and special characters.

This function takes an input string and normalizes it by removing spaces, accents, diacritics, and special characters. It then converts the string to lowercase.

Usage

utils_normalize_string(input_string)

Arguments

input_string

The input string to be normalized.

Value

The normalized string with spaces, accents, and special characters removed, and in lowercase.

Examples

original_string <- "Thïs is à sâmplè strîng with spèciál chàracters!"
normalized_string <- utils_normalize_string(original_string)
cat(normalized_string)  # "thisisasamplestringwithspecialcharacters"
#> thisisasamplestringwithspecialcharacters