[R] selecting characters from a line of text

[Stephen Tucker]

Maybe substring() is what you're looking for? Some examples:

> substring("textstring",1,5)
[1] "texts"
> substring("textstring",3)
[1] "xtstring"
> substring("textstring",3,nchar("textstring"))
[1] "xtstring"


--- Tim Holland <timothyholland at gmail.com> wrote:

> Is there a way in R to select certain characters from a line of text?  I
> have some data that is presently in a large number of text files, and I
> would like to be able to select elements of each text file (elements are
> always on the same line, in the same position) and organize them into a
> table.  Is there a tool to select text in this way in R?  What I am looking
> for would be somewhat similar to the left() and right() functions in Excel.
> I have looked at the parse() and scan() functions, but don't think they can
> do what I want (although I could be wrong).
> Thank you,
> Tim
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