I've been trying to split a space delimited string with double-quotes in R for some time but without success. An example of a string is as follows:
/rainfall snowfall "Channel storage" "Rivulet storage"/ It's important for us because these are column headings that must match the subsequent data. Here is some code I've been trying: str <- 'rainfall snowfall "Channel storage" "Rivulet storage"' regex <- "[^\\s\"']+|\"([^\"]*)\"" split <- strsplit(str, regex, perl=T) what I would like is [1] "rainfall" "snowfall" "Channel storage" "Rivulet storage" but what I get is: [1] "" " " " " " " The vector is the right length (which is encouraging) but of course the strings are empty or contain a single space. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance! -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/splitting-a-string-by-space-except-when-contained-within-quotes-tp4651286.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.
