"hadley wickham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
n
> On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 12:55 AM, Gabor Grothendieck
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Try this:
>>
>>> library(gsubfn)
>>> x <- "A: 123 B: 456 C: 678"
>>> strapply(x, "[^ :]+[ :]|[^ :]+$")
>> [[1]]
>> [1] "A:" "123 " "B:" "456 " "C:" "678"
Also
> strsplit(x, "(?<=[0-9:] )", perl=TRUE)
[[1]]
[1] "A: " "123 " "B: " "456 " "C: " "678"
which uses perl's zero-length lookbehind to match "" preceed by a
digit or : and then a space. This is not quite what you asked for
> I'd like to get
> c("A:", "123 ", "B: ", "456 ", "C: ", 678)
(no space after A:) or what Gabor offered (no spaces after :) but maybe
what you intended?
Martin
>>
>> and check out the gsubfn home page at:
>>
>> http://gsubfn.googlecode.com
>
> Thanks Gabor!
> Hadley
>
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