[R] Number of words in a string

[Gabor Grothendieck]

See strapply in the gsubfn package and the gsubfn home page at
gsubfn.googlecode.com.
Here we extract the words, the last word and all but the last word:

> library(gsubfn)
> strapply(C, "\\w+")
[[1]]
[1] "My"  "Dog"

[[2]]
[1] "Its"    "really" "good"

[[3]]
[1] "Beautiful"

> sapply(strapply(C, "\\w+"), tail, 1)
[1] "Dog"       "good"      "Beautiful"
> sapply(strapply(C, "\\w+"), tail, -1)
[[1]]
[1] "Dog"

[[2]]
[1] "really" "good"

[[3]]
character(0)


On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 11:44 AM, Shubha Vishwanath Karanth
<shubhak at ambaresearch.com> wrote:
> Got all the answers using ?strsplit... Is there any way without using string split?... More specifically... How can I just extract the last word in all the strings without using ?strsplit ?
>
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> Subject: Re: [R] Number of words in a string
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>
> On 9 Apr 2008, at 17:29, Markus Gesmann wrote:
> > Would this:
> >
> > sapply(strsplit(C, " "), length)
> >
> > work for?
>
> or
>
> length(unlist(strsplit(C, " ")))
>
> --Hans
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