On 22-03-2012, at 08:23, jing tang wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I tried to use strsplit for separating a string with || like
> strsplit(string,"\\||") but it returned each single character was separated.
>
> For example:
>
> strsplit("a||bc","\\||")
>
> [[1]]
>
> [1] "a" "" "" "b" "c"
>
> where I want the result to be "a" and "bc".
>
You should escape both \'s.
strsplit("a||bc","\\|\\|")
Berend
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