string.bounding.box: Determine Dimensions of Strings

In Hmisc: Harrell Miscellaneous

Determine Dimensions of Strings

Description

This determines the number of rows and maximum number of columns of each string in a vector.

Usage

string.bounding.box(string, type = c("chars", "width"))

Arguments

string	vector of strings
type	character: whether to count characters or screen columns

Value

rows	vector containing the number of character rows in each string
columns	vector containing the maximum number of character columns in each string

Author(s)

Charles Dupont

See Also

nchar, stringDims

Examples

a <- c("this is a single line string", "This is a\nmulti-line string")
stringDims(a)

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