[R] starting with a capital letter

[(Ted Harding)]

On 15-Sep-07 10:21:19, kevinchang wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I am wondering if there is any built-in funcion that can
> determine whether words in a character vector start with
> a captial letter or not. Help, please. Thanks.

Something like:

C<-c("Abc", "aBc", "abC")

for(i in (1:length(C))){
 if(length(grep("^[A-Z]",C[i]))>0){
   print("Yes") else print("No")
  }
}


[1] "Yes"
[1] "No"
[1] "No"


The "grep" expression "[A-Z]" looks for one of A,B,C,...,Z
and the "^" makes it look for it at the start of the string.

Hoping this helps,
Ted.

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