| 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 |
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"