Thanks. Thinking like a C programmer again....
W On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Peter Langfelder < peter.langfel...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.