[R] Searching within a ch. string

Luc Villandre villandl at dms.umontreal.ca
Mon May 11 16:16:05 CEST 2009


Hi Ron,

Look up the grep() function.

Cheers,

-- 
*Luc Villandré*
/Biostatistician
McGill University Health Center -
Montreal Children's Hospital Research Institute/

RON70 wrote:
> Hi all, is there any function to find some words in a character-string? For
> example suppose the string is : "gdfsa-sdhchc-88", now I want to find
> whether this string contains "sdhch". Is there any R function to do that?
>
> Regards,
>   
//




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