[R] splitstr problem

[Matthew Wiener]

Hi, all.

Using the patched version of R-0.99.0, I cannot reproduce the following
example from the strsplit  documentation:

(Example)
unlist(strsplit("a.b.c", "."))  
## [1] "" "" "" "" "" 
## Note that `split' is a regexp!  
## If you really want to split on `.', use
unlist(strsplit("a.b.c", "\."))
## [1] "a" "b" "c"


The first one gets the stated result, but the second gets me the same
result as the first.

Is there some way to do what's intended?

Thanks,
		Matt


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