Dear John,
Assuming that your information is in the list x, does
substr(x,1,2)
work for you?
HTH,
Jorge
On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 10:07 PM, john.polo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> hello all,
>
> i want to split a list into smaller lists. the list looks like this:
> CW-W730 CW-W720 CW-W710 CW-W700 CW-W690 CW-W680 CW-W670 CW-W660
> CE-W997 CE-W987 CE-W977 CE-W967 CE-W956 CE-W944 CE-W934 CE-W924
> 7W-W760 7W-W750 7W-96 7W-941 7W-932 7W-923 7W-914 7W-905
> 7E-W565 7E-W555 7E-W545 7E-W535 7E-W525 7E-906 7E-850 7E-840 ...
>
>
> i want the smaller lists to be based on the first two characters, like CW
> or 7E. i tried split() where the f variable =
> c("1E-*","1W-*","2E-*","2W-*","5E-*","5W-*","7E-*","7W-*","CE-*","CW-*"),
> but * doesn't work as a wildcard as i had hoped. can someone tell me the
> appropriate wildcard character/symbol to use, please?
>
> john
>
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