On 09/18/2013 09:04 AM, arun wrote:
Hi, You could try:strsplit(c("a,b;c","d;e,f"),",|;")
He did it with "[,;]" which is equivalent but slightly faster. The more characters you have inside the square brackets, the more beneficial it is to use [abcde] over a|b|c|d|e. It's also more compact and easier to read. H.
#[[1]] #[1] "a" "b" "c" # #[[2]] #[1] "d" "e" "f" A.K. ----- Original Message ----- From: Sam Steingold <s...@gnu.org> To: r-help@r-project.org Cc: Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 11:42 AM Subject: [R] strsplit with a vector split argument Hi, I find this behavior unexpected: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---strsplit(c("a,b;c","d;e,f"),c(",",";"))[[1]] [1] "a" "b;c" [[2]] [1] "d" "e,f" --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- I thought that it should be identical to this: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---strsplit(c("a,b;c","d;e,f"),"[,;]")[[1]] [1] "a" "b" "c" [[2]] [1] "d" "e" "f" --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Is this a bug or did I misunderstand the docs? Thanks!
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