[R] String Manipulation in R

[Jeff Newmiller]

?grepl

Note that this function uses regular expressions, in which certain characters have special meanings, so depending on what string you are looking for you may have to know something about regex patterns to get it to work.
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anjali <jeeviram at gmail.com> wrote:

>Hi ,
>Is there any inbuilt functions  to check whether a substring is present
>in a
>string and give the result as boolean 
>Thanks 
>
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