[R] scan html: sep = "<td>"

[Uwe Ligges]

Christoph Lehmann wrote:

> Hi
> I try to import html text and I need to split the fields at each <td> or 
> </td> entry
> 
> How can I succeed? sep = '<td>' doens't yield the right result

If it fits pairwise together, use
   sep=c("<td>", "</td>")

if not, you can read the whole lot with readLines and strsplit for both 
pattern after that, for example.

Uwe Ligges



> thanks for hints
> 
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