computeChar_index: Locate position of first occurence of a pattern
In translateSPSS2R: Toolset for Translating SPSS-Syntax to R-Code

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Helper Function for xpssCompute. R Implementation of the SPSS CHAR.INDEX Function.

1	computeChar_index (x,pattern = NULL, split = 0)

`x`	atomic character or character vector.
`pattern`	atomic character to look for.
`split`	atomic numeric. Number of parts pattern to divide to.

computeChar_index(x="Hello user", pattern="user") Returns a number indicating the character position of the first occurrence of the first letter of 'user' in 'Hello user'. The optional third argument, split, is a number, which must be a positive integer used to divide 'user' into separate strings. The split value must be able to divide the pattern string without remainder.

Numeric. Position of the first occurence of the pattern.

Bastian Wiessner

str_locate_all

xpssCompute(x="there is no letter in word", fun="computeChar_index", pattern="letter")

xpssCompute(x="there is no letter in word", fun="computeChar_index", pattern="string")

xpssCompute(x=c("fruits are sweet", "fruits are sour","fruits are salty"),
fun="computeChar_index", pattern="sweet")