[R] Number of words in a string

[Shubha Vishwanath Karanth]

Exactly...this is what I wanted... Can we also extract/remove the last word of the strings?

Example:
> C=c("My Dog", "Its really good", "Beautiful")
> sapply(strsplit(C, " "), length)
[1] 2 3 1


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-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 9:00 PM
To: Shubha Vishwanath Karanth; r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: RE: [R] Number of words in a string

Would this:

sapply(strsplit(C, " "), length)

work for?



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-----Original Message-----
From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Shubha Vishwanath Karanth
Sent: 09 April 2008 16:21
To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: [R] Number of words in a string

Hi R,



A quick question: How do we find the number of words in a string?



Example:

C="Have a nice day"



And the number of words should be 4. any built in function or?...



Thanks, Shubha

Shubha Karanth | Amba Research

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