Split the Strings in a Vector

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Split the Strings in a Vector

Syntax

strsplit(x,split)

Description

strsplit takes two arguments. A character vector to split, x, and a
character string, split, to use as splits (this can also be a vector). 
It returns a list each element of which contains the vector of splits.
See Also
paste, nchar, substr
Examples
x<-c("asfef","qwerty","yuiop[","b","stuff.blah.yech")
#split x on the letter e
> strsplit(x,"e")
[[1]]
[1] "asf" "f"  
 
[[2]]
[1] "qw"  "rty"
 
[[3]]
[1] "yuiop["
 
[[4]]
[1] "b"
 
[[5]]
[1] "stuff.blah.y" "ch"