[R] substrings

[Vladimir Eremeev]

one more, shorter, solution.
> a
[1] "a b c" "1 2 3" "q- 5" 

> gsub("\\s.+","",a)
[1] "a"  "1"  "q-"



Edna Bell wrote:
> 
> I have a set of character results.  If one of the characters is a
> blank space, followed by other characters, I want to end at the blank
> space.
> 
> I tried strsplit, but it picks up again after the blank.
> 
> Any help would be much appreciated.
> 

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