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, to use as "split".
If |
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")