strsplitN: Split up a string in pieces and return the nth piece.

In gschofl/gsmisc: A collection conveniance functions

Description

Split up a string in pieces and return the nth piece.

Usage

strsplitN(x, split, n, from = "start", collapse = split, ...)

Arguments

x	character vector to be split.
split	regular expression used for splitting.
n	Vector of elements to be returned.
from	One of ‘start’ or ‘end’. From which direction do we count the pieces.
collapse	an optional character string to separate the results.
...	Arguments passed on to strsplit.

Value

A character vector.

See Also

Other string-utils: blanks, dup, pad, replace_ext, split_path, strip_ext, trim, wrap

Examples

str <- c("Lorem, ipsum, dolor", "consectetur, adipisicing, elit")
strsplitN(str, ", ", 1)
## [1] "Lorem"
## [2] "consectetur"
strsplitN(str, ", ", 1, from="end")
## [1] "dolor"
## [2] "elit"
strsplitN(str, ", ", 1:2)
## [1] "Lorem, ipsum"
## [2] "consectetur, adipisicing"
strsplitN(str, ", ", 1:2, collapse = "--")
## [1] "Lorem--ipsum"
## [2] "consectetur--adipisicing"

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