[R] String Manipulation in R

Greg Snow 538280 at gmail.com
Tue Jun 12 22:05:14 CEST 2012


Or use 'fixed=TRUE' as an argument to grepl to avoid the regular
expression matching (but learning regular expressions will be a useful
tool in the long run).

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Jeff Newmiller
<jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote:
> ?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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>>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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