[R] position of a specific character

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, Erik Iverson wrote:

> gregexpr("\\(", frg)

Better

> gregexpr("(", frg, fixed=TRUE)

(there is no regular expression here), but in this case

> which(unlist(strsplit(frg, "")) == "(")

is more efficient (especially if you want to do further manipulations on 
the individual characters, as Hau Li's followup seems to require).

>
>
> Hua Li wrote:
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> I'm wondering whether there is a quick way to know the position of a
>> specific charcater in a long character:
>> 
>> for example
>> 
>> frg="((D:41.04,I:41.04):45.05,(((E:2.32,((G:0.67,J:0.67):0.44,H:1.11):1.21)"
>> 
>> 
>> and I would like to know that the 1st, 2nd, 26th, 27th, 28th ...
>> character is "(", is there a quick way to do that?
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
>> Hua
>> 
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