strsplit {base} | R Documentation |
Split the strings in x
into substrings according to the
presence of substring split
within them.
strsplit(x,split)
x |
character vector, to be split. |
split |
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 . |
A list of length length(x)
the i
-th element of
which contains the vector of splits of x[i]
.
paste
for the reverse,
grep
and sub
for string search and
manipulation; further nchar
, substr
.
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")