You need another \\
> strsplit("a||bc","\\|\\|")
[[1]]
[1] "a" "bc"
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On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 3:23 AM, jing tang <jing.t...@fimm.fi> wrote:
> Hi,
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> I tried to use strsplit for separating a string with || like
> strsplit(string,"\\||") but it returned each single character was separated.
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> For example:
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> strsplit("a||bc","\\||")
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> [[1]]
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> [1] "a" "" "" "b" "c"
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> where I want the result to be "a" and "bc".
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> Any ideas?
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> Thanks!
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> Best,
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> Jing
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