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R.utils (version 1.18.0)

splitByPattern: Splits a single character string by pattern

Description

Splits a single character string by pattern. The main difference compared to strsplit() is that this method also returns the part of the string that matched the pattern. Also, it only takes a single character string.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'default':
splitByPattern(str, pattern, ...)

Arguments

str
A single character string to be split.
pattern
A regular expression character string.
...
Not used.

Value

  • Returns a named character vector with names equal to "TRUE" if element is a pattern part and "FALSE" otherwise.

See Also

Compare to strsplit().

Examples

Run this code
rspCode <- "<body>Hello <%="world"%></body>"
rspParts <- splitByPattern(rspCode, pattern="<%.*%>")
cat(rspCode, "")
print(rspParts)

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