Smisc (version 0.3.9.1)

grabLast: Get the final set of characters after a single-character delimeter

Description

Get the final set of characters from a vector after a single-character delimeter. This can be useful in filename manipulations, among other things.

Usage

grabLast(vec, split.char)

Arguments

vec

Character vector (usually containing filenames)

split.char

A single character used to split the character strings

Value

Character vector of the strings that appear after the last instance of split.char

See Also

Additional functions for filename manipulations: stripExtension, getExtension, stripPath, getPath, basename, dirname

Examples

# NOT RUN {
grabLast(c(a="[e-mail]", "this.has.no.at.sign", "@",
             "[e-mail]@", NA, "2at's@[e-mail]"), "@")
# }