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

In gschofl/rmisc: 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
...	Arguments passed on to strsplit.

Value

A character vector.

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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