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strsplit {base}R Documentation

Split the Strings in a Vector

Description

Split the strings in x into substrings according to the presence of substring split within them.

Usage

strsplit(x, split)

Arguments

x character vector, to be split.
split character string containing a regular expression to use as ``split''. If empty matches occur, in particular if split has length 0, x is split into single characters. If split is a vector, it is re-cycled along x.

Value

A list of length length(x) the i-th element of which contains the vector of splits of x[i].

See Also

paste for the reverse, grep and sub for string search and manipulation; further nchar, substr.

Examples

noquote(strsplit("A text I want to display with spaces", NULL)[[1]]) x <- c("asfef", "qwerty", "yuiop[", "b", "stuff.blah.yech") # split x on the letter e strsplit(x,"e") unlist(strsplit("a.b.c", ".")) ## [1] "" "" "" "" "" ## Note that `split' is a regexp! ## If you really want to split on `.', use unlist(strsplit("a.b.c", "\\.")) ## [1] "a" "b" "c" [Package Contents]

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