Or use 'fixed=TRUE' as an argument to grepl to avoid the regular expression matching (but learning regular expressions will be a useful tool in the long run).
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Jeff Newmiller <jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote: > ?grepl > > Note that this function uses regular expressions, in which certain characters > have special meanings, so depending on what string you are looking for you > may have to know something about regex patterns to get it to work. > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live... > DCN:<jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go... > Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing > Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with > /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...1k > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. > > anjali <jeevi...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>Hi , >>Is there any inbuilt functions to check whether a substring is present >>in a >>string and give the result as boolean >>Thanks >> >> >>-- >>View this message in context: >>http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/String-Manipulation-in-R-tp4633104.html >>Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >>______________________________________________ >>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. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. -- Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D. 538...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ 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.
