strsplitx: Extended string splitting

In REDCapCAST: REDCap Metadata Casting and Castellated Data Handling

Extended string splitting

Description

Can be used as a substitute of the base function. Main claim to fame is easing the split around the defined delimiter, see example.

Usage

strsplitx(x, split, type = "classic", perl = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

x	data
split	delimiter
type	Split type. Can be c("classic", "before", "after", "around")
perl	perl param from strsplit()
...	additional parameters are passed to base strsplit handling splits

Value

list

Examples

test <- c("12 months follow-up", "3 steps", "mRS 6 weeks",
"Counting to 231 now")
strsplitx(test, "[0-9]", type = "around")

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