There is a strsplit() function (syntax is (stringToBeSplit, splitAt) ) that
may be of use. I haven't followed the thread so I don't know how well it
handles the original problem.

Michael Weylandt

On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Ole Peter Smith <ole.ufg@gmail.com> wrote:

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Ole Peter Smith <ole.ufg@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 1:40 PM
> Subject: Re: [R] Leading zeros
> To: David Winsemius <dwinsemius@comcast.net>
>
>
> I'm all new to R, assisting the last days of topics from the sideline.
> I am, however, a longterm programmer.
>
> This question makes me ask myself - and now here - is there any string
> split-function, ex some thing like:
>
> split('/',"2000/3000/4") --> (2000,3000,4)
>
> After this patting with zero is a breeze, sprintf('%010d',...
>
> 0le
>
> On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 1:19 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsemius@comcast.net>
> wrote:
> >
> > Copying list one what was sent in reply. Anybody have a better solution?
> >
> >> On Aug 19, 2011, at 11:57 AM, Vasco Cadavez wrote:
> >>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>>
> >>> A solution can be by substring to remove the /
> >>> then numeric will be ok! What you think?
> >>>
> >>> How can I remove the /
> >>
> > with sub or gsub:
> >
> >> sprintf("%010.0f", as.integer(gsub("/","", c("4/3003","55/333","66/22"))
> >> ))
> > [1] "0000043003" "0000055333" "0000006622"
> >
> > --
> > David.
> >
> >>>
> >>> Thanks
> >>>
> >>> Vasco Cadavez
> >>>
> >>> ----- Menssagem Original -----
> >>> De:
> >>> "David Winsemius" <dwinsemius@comcast.net>
> >>>
> >>> Para:
> >>> "David Winsemius" <dwinsemius@comcast.net>
> >>> Cópia:
> >>> "Vasco Cadavez" <vcadavez@ipbpt>, <r-help@r-project.org>
> >>> Enviado:
> >>> Fri, 19 Aug 2011 11:51:08 -0400
> >>> Assunto:
> >>> Re: [R] Leading zeros
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Aug 19, 2011, at 11:17 AM, David Winsemius wrote:
> >>>
> >>> >
> >>> > On Aug 19, 2011, at 11:12 AM, Vasco Cadavez wrote:
> >>> >
> >>> >> Hello,
> >>> >> I have a dataset with an Id columns like:
> >>> >> 4/3003
> >>> >> 55/333
> >>> >> 66/22
> >>> >> I want to put leading zeros to get:
> >>> >> 00000004/3003
> >>> >> 000000055/333
> >>> >> 0000000066/22
> >>> >>
> >>> >> How can I solve this?
> >>> >
> >>> > ?sprintf
> >>> > ?formatC
> >>> >
> >>> I may have been too quick. Padding with leading zeros using sprintf is
> >>> described for numeric but not for character types. There are severa
> >
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