I'm having a Thursday morning mental block, any suggestions on the following
would be most appreciated...

I have (as an example)

surgery = c("d48",  "d67",  "dnc37",  "a75",  "d10",  "a78",  "d31",
"d55",  "d1")

before each number part the possibilities are c("a", "d", "dnc"), I'm trying
to split each element in "surgery" so that I have,

status time
d        48
d        67
dnc     37
a        75
d        10
a        78
d        31
d        55
d        1

I've tried various strsplit approaches but nothing has done what I need.

thanks in advance

Gary

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