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

jim holtman jholtman at gmail.com
Fri Oct 2 14:08:50 CEST 2009


But it misses the last set if not a multiple of the subset length:

> library(gsubfn)
> s <- "abcdefghijklm"
>
> # no 'm'
> strapply(s, "...")[[1]]
[1] "abc" "def" "ghi" "jkl"
>


On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 7:58 AM, Gabor Grothendieck
<ggrothendieck at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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