[R] Character position command

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Sat, 25 Aug 2007, Mitchell Hoffman wrote:

> This is a very simple question, so I apologize I couldn't find it online:
>
> I want to shorten the string 'apples.pears' to 'apples'.
>
> string='apples.pears'
> string1=substr(string,0,x)
>
> For x above, I would like to have a command like charAt(string,"."), i.e.
> the position of the period in the word, but I can't seem to find a charAt
> command in R.

See ?regexpr

But a simpler solution is sub("\\..*", "", string).


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