[R] string split problem

[Jun Shen]

Dear list,

Say I have a vector that has two different types of string

test <- c('aaa.bb.cc','aaa.dd')

I want to extract the first part of the string (aaa) as a name and save the
rest of the string as another name.

I was thinking something like

sub('(.*)\\.(.*)','\\1',test) but doesn't give me what I want.


Appreciate any comments. Thanks.

Jun

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