Try this: > library(gsubfn) > strapply(x, "[0-9]+| +[^ ]+ *")[[1]] [1] "2" " Value " "34" " a-c " "45" " t"
which keeps the spaces around the non-numeric entries as in your example; however, if keeping the spaces is not important then its even easier: > strsplit(x, " ")[[1]] [1] "2" "Value" "34" "a-c" "45" "t" On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 12:51 PM, Patrick Hausmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear list, > > I am trying to split a string using regexp: > > x <- "2 Value 34 a-c 45 t" > strsplit(x, "[0-9]") > > [[1]] > [1] "" " Value " "" " a-c " "" " t" > > But I don't want to lose the digits (pattern), the result > should be: > > [[1]] > [1] "2" " Value " "34" " a-c " "45" " t" > > Thanks for any tipp > Patrick > > ______________________________________________ > 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.
