[R] substrings

[Vladimir Eremeev]

Is this what you want?

> a<-c("a b c","1 2 3","q - 5")
> a
[1] "a b c" "1 2 3" "q - 5"
> sapply(strsplit(a,"[[:blank:]]"),function(x)x[1])
[1] "a" "1" "q"


Edna Bell wrote:
> 
> I have a set of character results.  If one of the characters is a
> blank space, followed by other characters, I want to end at the blank
> space.
> 
> I tried strsplit, but it picks up again after the blank.
> 
> Any help would be much appreciated.
> 


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