CharNumSplit: Split Vectors in the Form of Numbers+Characters or...

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Description

A convenience function for the perl = TRUE patterns for "(?<=[a-zA-Z])(?=[0-9])" and "(?<=[0-9])(?=[a-zA-Z])". That's it. Really.

Usage

CharNumSplit(string, alphaFirst = TRUE)

Arguments

string	The string to be split.
alphaFirst	Logical. Characters first (TRUE)? Or numbers (FALSE)?

Value

A list with the split values.

Author(s)

Ananda Mahto

References

http://stackoverflow.com/a/23052016/1270695

Examples

STR1 <- c("ABC123", "BCD234", "CDE345", "DEF456")
STR2 <- c("123ABC", "234BCD", "345CDE", "456DEF")

CharNumSplit(STR1, alphaFirst = TRUE)
CharNumSplit(STR2, alphaFirst = FALSE)

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