[R] Odp: character count

[Petr PIKAL]

Ok, I knew somebody come with regex solution. My regex skills are limited 
so I do not use it very often.

Regards
Petr

r-help-bounces at r-project.org napsal dne 12.12.2008 17:03:38:

> On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Petr PIKAL <petr.pikal at precheza.cz> 
wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> >
> > r-help-bounces at r-project.org napsal dne 12.12.2008 16:31:10:
> >
> >> Dear list,
> >> I have a variable that consists of typed responses. I wish to compute
> >> a variable equal to the number of characters in the original 
variable.
> >> For example:
> >>
> >> > x <- c("convert this to 32 because it has 32 characters", "this one
> > has 22
> >> characters", "12 characters")
> >>
> >> [Some magic function here]
> >
> > If you consider space as a character then
> >
> >  nchar(x)
> >
> > gives you the result.
> >
> > If not so such construction can do it
> >
> >  unlist(lapply(lapply(strsplit(x, " "), paste, collapse=""), nchar))
> >
> 
> or perhaps:
> 
> x <- "abc def"
> nchar(gsub(" ", "", x)) # 6
> 
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