strPart: Extract a defined part of a text string with separated...

In marchtaylor/sinkr: Collection of functions with emphasis on multivariate data analysis

Extract a defined part of a text string with separated elements

Description

Wrapper for strsplit. One defines the element of the string to return after splitting, with option to convert back to a character vector or leave as list. See strsplit for further description of most arguments.

Usage

strPart(x, part = 1, split = NULL, fixed = TRUE, returnVector = TRUE, ...)

Arguments

x	character vector, each element of which is to be split. Other inputs, including a factor, will give an error.
part	numeric. Part of string (between splits) to return.
split	character. The splitting character. See strsplit
fixed	logical. Default TRUE. See strsplit
returnVector	logical. Function relies on lapply, and thus returns a list. Set to 'TRUE' (Default) to return a vector.
...	Further arguments passed to strsplit.

Value

vector or list of character strings

Examples

# make example text string
txtStr <- paste(LETTERS[1:10], 13:22, letters[11:20], sep = "_")
txtStr

strPart(x = txtStr, part = 1, split = "_")
strPart(x = txtStr, part = 2, split = "_")
strPart(x = txtStr, part = 3, split = "_")

strPart(x = txtStr, part = 3, split = "_", returnVector = FALSE)

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