strscan: Extract words from a string vector.

In epifit: Flexible Modelling Functions for Epidemiological Data Analysis

Description

This function split a string into several string components divided by delimiter, and devided components selected by position are returned.

Usage

strscan(src, delimiter, pos)

Arguments

src	a source string vector to be split.
delimiter	a delimiter string.
pos	a subset indicator vector to select.

Value

a string vector to be extracted.

Examples

bdate <- c("3/21/1941", "9/21/1919", "6/1/1951")
datestr <- paste(strscan(bdate, "/", 3), strscan(bdate, "/", 1), strscan(bdate, "/", 2),
                 sep="-")
datestr
as.Date(bdate, '%m/%d/%Y')

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