[R] Searching within a ch. string

[Gabor Grothendieck]

The following is TRUE if the indicated string is found:

regexpr("sdhch", "gdfsa-sdhchc-88") > 0

See ?regexpr

Either of the next two will break up a string into words. The
first needs to know the delimiters whereas the second
needs to know the contents:

> strsplit("gdfsa-sdhchc-88", "\\W+")[[1]]
[1] "gdfsa"  "sdhchc" "88"

> library(gsubfn)
> strapply("gdfsa-sdhchc-88", "\\w+", c)[[1]]
[1] "gdfsa"  "sdhchc" "88"

See ?strplit and ?regex and also the gsubfn home page at:
http://gsubfn.googlecode.com
where you can find info on strapply and also further resources
on regular expressions.

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 10:07 AM, RON70 <ron_michael70 at yahoo.com> 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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