pos.char: Position of a given character in a string variable (first...

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Description

Determines the position(s) of a given character in a string variable. If the character is absent, NA is returned.

Usage

pos.char(string, char)

Arguments

string	Character string
char	The character to position of which needs to be determined

Details

The function converts the string to a vector of characters. An alternative is to use which(strsplit(string, ”)[[1]]=='a'), where a is the character. That code determines all positions of the character in the character string.

Value

The position is returned

Author(s)

Frans Willekens

See Also

printf

Examples

string  <- "tests"
pos.char(string,"s")

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