[R] Is there a better way to parse strings than this?

[Hadley Wickham]

On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 5:18 AM, Dennis Murphy <djmuser at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi:
>
> Here's one approach:
>
> strings <- c(
> "A5.Brands.bought...Dulux",
> "A5.Brands.bought...Haymes",
> "A5.Brands.bought...Solver",
> "A5.Brands.bought...Taubmans.or.Bristol",
> "A5.Brands.bought...Wattyl",
> "A5.Brands.bought...Other")
>
> slist <- strsplit(strings, '\\.\\.\\.')

Or with stringr:

library(stringr)
str_split_fixed(strings, fixed("..."), n = 2)

# or maybe
str_match(strings, "(..).*\\.\\.\\.(.*)")

Hadley

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