[R] length of empty string

Milan Bouchet-Valat nalimilan at club.fr
Fri Nov 18 16:53:05 CET 2011


Le vendredi 18 novembre 2011 à 16:09 +0100, Jaensch, Steffen [TIBBE] a
écrit :
> Hi all,
>
> Can somebody explain why length("") returns 1 and not 0?
Probably because it contains one element, "".

> How do I test if a given string is the empty string?
a <- ""
a == ""
[1] TRUE

Seems to be enough to me. ;-)


Cheers



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