strapply in the gsubfn package can split strings based on content rather than delimiters.
> library(gsubfn) > strapply(s, ".[(].[)]|.")[[1]] [1] "A" "B" "C" "D" "E" "F" "G" "T(P)" "H" "I" [11] "J" "K" See home page at: http://gsubfn.googlecode.com and vignette: library(gsubfn); vignette("gsubfn") On Jan 18, 2008 9:09 AM, Johannes Graumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi again, > > how to elegantly split > > s <- "ABCDEFGT(P)HIJK" > > into > > "A" "B" "C" "D" "E" "F" "G" "T(P)" "H" "I" "J" "K" > > (independently of which letters 'T' or 'P' actually represent ...). > > Please jumstart my regexing, > > Joh > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.