[R] break up a string into strings with a fixed length

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Try this:

> library(gsubfn)
> s <- "abcdefghijkl"

> strapply(s, "...")[[1]]
[1] "abc" "def" "ghi" "jkl"


On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 5:36 AM, J Chen <jiaxuan.chen at mdc-berlin.de> wrote:
>
> dear all,
>
> I have some very long strings and would like to break up each long string
> into multiple strings with a fixed length, e.g. to break up
>
> abcdefghijkl
>
> into
>
> abc, def, ghi, jkl
>
> I tried a couple of commands but was not successful. Any help will be
> appreciated.
>
> Best,
> Jimmy
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