[R] Index of Character

Joshua Wiley jwiley.psych at gmail.com
Thu Jul 1 05:03:56 CEST 2010


Hello,

This does what you are looking for:

> regexpr("4", "Test1234")
[1] 8
attr(,"match.length")
[1] 1

see ?regexpr  also ?regexp for more details on regular expressions in R.

HTH,

Josh

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 7:48 PM, harsh yadav <harsh.delhi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am a newbie to R and this may be too simple to ask.
>
> I am trying to find out a string function in R that returns the index of a
> character.
>
> For e.g. indexOf("Test1234", '4') would return 8.
>
> Is there a similar function in R.
> I tried searching the documentation and could find other useful string
> functions, but not the index function.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Regards,
> Harsh Yadav
>
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