Try:

sapply(strsplit(TEXT, ';'), '[', 1)

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 8:12 AM, Dennis Fisher <fisher@plessthan.com> wrote:

> Colleagues,
>
> I have some text:
>        TEXT    <- c("a", "bb;ccc", "dddd;eeeee;ffffff")
>
> I want to retrieve the portion of each element before the first
> semicolon.  I can split each element using strsplit:
>
>        SPLIT   <- strsplit(TEXT, ";")
>
> This yields:
>  > SPLIT
> [[1]]
> [1] "a"
>
> [[2]]
> [1] "bb"  "ccc"
>
> [[3]]
> [1] "dddd"   "eeeee"  "ffffff"
>
> Now I need to access the [1] portions of [[n]] - ("a", "bb",
> "dddd").  I suspect that sapply is the correct tool here but the
> syntax eludes me.  Can anyone direct me to the correct syntax?
>
> Dennis
>
>
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