# or: strsplit("junk",split=NULL)[[1]][(1:nchar("junk"))%%2==1] strsplit("junk",split=NULL)[[1]][(1:nchar("junk"))%%2==0] -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/extracting-every-nth-character-from-a-string-tp4711908p4711962.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.