get_nth_part: Extracts the first (or nth) entry from each split.

In kazeera/hourglass: This Package Provides Visualizations of Annotated Numeric Data

Extracts the first (or nth) entry from each split.

Description

Extracts the first (or nth) entry from each split.

Usage

get_nth_part(x, delimiter, entry_no)

Arguments

x	A character vector.
delimiter	A character to split by.
entry_no	A number indicating which part of split to return.

Value

A character vector containing parts

Examples

x <- c("2wk.1", "2wk.2", "2wk.3", "2wk.4", "2wk.5", "2wk.6", "2wk.7", "2wk.8", "2wk.9", "2wk.10")
# delimiter = "\." # double slashes are escape characters for special characters like "."
# entry_no = 1L
get_nth_part(x, "\\.", "\\.")
# The return value is c("2wk", "2wk", "2wk", "2wk", "2wk", "2wk", "2wk", "2wk", "2wk", "2wk", "2wk", "2wk")
get_nth_part(x, "wk", 1)

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