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R.utils (version 2.3.0)

splitByPattern: Splits a single character string by pattern

Description

Splits a single character string by pattern. The main difference compared to strsplit() is that this method also returns the part of the string that matched the pattern. Also, it only takes a single character string.

Usage

"splitByPattern"(str, pattern, ...)

Arguments

str
A single character string to be split.
pattern
A regular expression character string.
...
Not used.

Value

Returns a named character vector with names equal to "TRUE" if element is a pattern part and "FALSE" otherwise.

See Also

Compare to strsplit().

Examples

Run this code

rspCode <- "<body>Hello <%=\"world\"%></body>"
rspParts <- splitByPattern(rspCode, pattern="<%.*%>")
cat(rspCode, "\n")
print(rspParts)

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