[Rd] strsplit ignores empty fields (PR#8271)
beissbarth@wehi.edu.au
beissbarth at wehi.edu.au
Tue Nov 1 18:36:04 CET 2005
Full_Name: Tim Beissbarth
Version: 2.2.0
OS: Windows
Submission from: (NULL) (193.174.58.254)
strsplit ignores empty strings at the end.
> strsplit(paste(c("", "a", ""), collapse="#"), split="#", fixed=TRUE)
[[1]]
[1] "" "a"
This should really give:
[1] "" "a" ""
Some might say this is a feature, but strsplit should be the reverse of paste, I
think.
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