[R] Splitting on metacharacters

[Nordlund, Dan (DSHS/RDA)]

What you are seeing when printing depends on how you do it (and it can be confusing).  Try this, type the following lines exactly (or copy and paste)  and carefully study the results.  In particular, compare the results of cat(s,'\n') with the results of strsplit(s, '"') .

s <- "{\"Q0\":\"37\",\"Q1\":\"f\"}"
s
cat(s,'\n')
'"'    # single quote, double quote, single quote

strsplit(s, '"')


Hope this is helpful,

Dan

Daniel Nordlund, PhD
Research and Data Analysis Division
Services & Enterprise Support Administration
Washington State Department of Social and Health Services


> -----Original Message-----
> From: R-help [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Patzelt,
> Edward
> Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2017 9:50 AM
> To: R-help at r-project.org
> Subject: [R] Splitting on metacharacters
> 
> Hi R-help,
> 
> I would like to:
> 
> Extract the "26" and "f" from the following string (i.e. age and gender).
> I've tried a bunch of strsplit, grep, etc. Please help!
> 
> *"{\"Q0\":\"37\",\"Q1\":\"f\"}"*
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Edward
> 
> --
> Edward H Patzelt | Clinical Science PhD Student
> Psychology | Harvard University
> *Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory
> <http://gershmanlab.webfactional.com/>*
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