| splitString {cwhstring} | R Documentation |
splitString splits string at the location(s) of a delimiting
string
getSubs splits string at the location(s) of the
constituent characters of a delimiting string
cv Convert string to vector of characters.
vc Convert vector of characters to string.
splitString(str,pattern,clean=FALSE) getSubs(str, sep = ",") cv(str) vc(vec)
str |
A string. |
pattern |
The pattern acting as the delimiting string. |
clean |
If TRUE then elements "" will be discarded. |
sep |
A vector of characters or a string. |
vec |
A vector of characters. |
splitString |
A character vector of the parts. If clean == TRUE then elements containing "" are omitted. |
getSubs |
A character vector of the parts. |
cv |
a vector of characters. |
vc |
a string. |
Uses substring, substring.location.
John Wallace, rw@fish.washington.edu, (cv, vc:) Christian W. Hoffmann, christian.hoffmann@wsl.ch, http://www.wsl.ch/staff/christian.hoffmann
nj.string <- " 12.345 1.2345E+02 0.123"
splitString(nj.string," ",clean=TRUE)
# [1] "12.345" "1.2345E+02" "0.123"
splitString(nj.string,"3",clean=TRUE)
# [1] " 12." "45 1.2" "45E+02 0.12"
as.numeric(getSubs(" 12.345 1.2345E+02 0.123", sep=" ")) # [1] 12.345 123.450 0.123
rev(getSubs("I want to grab this number as is 4E+03", " "))[1] # "4E+03"
#For a vector of character strings, with the same number of elements in each string use:
x <- c(" 12.345 1.2345E+02 0.123"," 2 4.56 5.67")
c(apply(matrix(x), 1, getSubs, " "))
# [1] "12.345" "1.2345E+02" "0.123" "2" "4.56" "5.67"
#else use:
y <- c(" 12.345 1.2345E+02 0.123", " 5 3.56")
unlist(apply(matrix(y), 1, getSubs, " "))
# "12.345" "1.2345E+02" "0.123" "5" "3.56"
cv("I love you") # [1] "I" " " "l" "o" "v" "e" " " "y" "o" "u"
vc(rev(cv("I love you"))) # "uoy evol I"