\b is word boundary.
But, unexpectedly, strsplit("dia ma", "\\b") splits character by character.
> strsplit("dia ma", "\\b")
[[1]]
[1] "d" "i" "a" " " "m" "a"
> strsplit("dia ma", "\\b", perl=TRUE)
[[1]]
[1] "d" "i" "a" " " "m" "a"
How can that be?
This is the output of 'gregexpr'.
> gregexpr("\\b", "dia ma")
[[1]]
[1] 1 2 3 4 5 6
attr(,"match.length")
[1] 0 0 0 0 0 0
> gregexpr("\\b", "dia ma", perl=TRUE)
[[1]]
[1] 1 4 5 7
attr(,"match.length")
[1] 0 0 0 0
The output from gregexpr("\\b", "dia ma", perl=TRUE) is what I expect. I expect
'strsplit' to split at that points.
This is in Windows. R was installed from binary.
> sessionInfo()
R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31)
i386-pc-mingw32
locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252
[2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252
[3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C
[5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
R 2.8.1 shows the same 'strsplit' behavior, but the behavior of default
'gregexpr' (i.e. perl=FALSE) is different.
> strsplit("dia ma", "\\b")
[[1]]
[1] "d" "i" "a" " " "m" "a"
> strsplit("dia ma", "\\b", perl=TRUE)
[[1]]
[1] "d" "i" "a" " " "m" "a"
> gregexpr("\\b", "dia ma")
[[1]]
[1] 1 4 5 7
attr(,"match.length")
[1] 0 0 0 0
> gregexpr("\\b", "dia ma", perl=TRUE)
[[1]]
[1] 1 4 5 7
attr(,"match.length")
[1] 0 0 0 0
> sessionInfo()
R version 2.8.1 (2008-12-22)
i386-pc-mingw32
locale:
LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252;LC_MON
ETARY=English_United States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
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