init_seg: initial segment of string(s) (similar to 'base::substr()' but...

In lefft/lefftpack: tim's personal package (demo of jun15/2017)

Description

get the initial segment of length 'nchar' for each element of 'string_vec'

Usage

init_seg(string_vec, nchar, keep_names = FALSE)

Arguments

string_vec	a vector of character strings
nchar	number of characters to return
keep_names	for handling named vectors, 'FALSE' by default

Value

initial segment of each string in the input vector

Examples

init_seg(string_vec=c("hai,","my","name","is","timi!"), nchar=3) 

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