On 22-03-2012, at 08:28, Berend Hasselman wrote:
>
> 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.
Of course I should have typed the |'s.
Berend
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