On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Worik R <wor...@gmail.com> wrote: > It seems obvious to me that the empty string "" is length 0.
You are using the wrong function to find the length of a character string. length() returns the length of the object, and length of (non-NULL) scalars is always 1. If you want the number of characters in a string, use nchar(): > nchar("") [1] 0 Peter ______________________________________________ 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.