DescTools (version 0.99.52)

StrSplit: Split the Elements of a Character Vector

Description

Split the elements of a character vector x into substrings according to the matches to substring split within them.
This is a verbatim copy of the base R function strsplit, but with a split default of "" and returning a vector instead of a list, when x had the length 1.

Usage

StrSplit(x, split = "", fixed = FALSE, perl = FALSE, useBytes = FALSE)

Value

A list of the same length as x, the i-th element of which contains the vector of splits of x[i].

If the length x was 1 a vecotor with the splits will be returned.

Arguments

x

character vector, each element of which is to be split. Other inputs, including a factor, will give an error.

split

character vector (or object which can be coerced to such) containing regular expression(s) (unless fixed = TRUE) to use for splitting. If empty matches occur, in particular if split has length 0, x is split into single characters. If split has length greater than 1, it is re-cycled along x.

fixed

logical. If TRUE match split exactly, otherwise use regular expressions. Has priority over perl.

perl

logical. Should Perl-compatible regexps be used?

useBytes

logical. If TRUE the matching is done byte-by-byte rather than character-by-character, and inputs with marked encodings are not converted. This is forced (with a warning) if any input is found which is marked as "bytes" (see Encoding).

Details

See strsplit for the details.

See Also

paste for the reverse, grep and sub for string search and manipulation; also nchar, substr.

‘regular expression’ for the details of the pattern specification.

Examples

noquote(StrSplit("A text I want to display with spaces"))

# the same as ...
noquote(strsplit("A text I want to display with spaces", NULL)[[1]])