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Hmisc (version 5.2-1)

string.break.line: Break a String into Many Lines at Newlines

Description

Takes a string and breaks it into seperate substrings where there are newline characters.

Usage

string.break.line(string)

Value

Returns a list that is the same length of as the string

argument.

Each list element is a character vector.

Each character vectors elements are the split lines of the corresponding element in the string argument vector.

Arguments

string

character vector to be separated into many lines.

Author

Charles Dupont

See Also

Examples

Run this code
a <- c('', 'this is a single line string',
       'This is a\nmulti-line string.')

b <- string.break.line(a)

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