strsplit {base}

R Documentation

Split the Strings in a Vector

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.

Usage

strsplit(x,split)

See Also

paste, nchar, substr

Examples

x <- c("asfef","qwerty","yuiop[","b","stuff.blah.yech")
#split x on the letter e
strsplit(x,"e")

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