Hi Mark,
here is a way using gsub to insert a "split marker" and strsplit.
strsplit(gsub("([[:alnum:]]+)","|\\1|",c(" some words to split "))[[1]]
cheers
Am 24.10.2011 15:46, schrieb Mark Heckmann:
> I would like to split a string into words at its blanks but also to preserve
> all blanks.
>
> Example:
> c(" some words to split ")
> should become
> c(" ", "some", " ", " words", " ", "to" , " ", "split", " ")
>
> I was not able to achieve this via strsplit() .
> But I am not familiar with regular expressions.
> Is there an easy way to do that using e.g. regex and strsplit?
>
> Thanks
> Mark
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