Split the Strings in a Vector
Usage
strsplit(x,split)
Arguments
x
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character vector, to be split.
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split
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character string, to use as "split".
If split has length 0, x is split into single characters.
If split is a vector, it is re-cycled along x.
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Description
Split the Strings in x into substrings according to the
presence of substring split within them.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")