Thanks.

Thinking like a C programmer again....

W

On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Peter Langfelder <
peter.langfelder@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Worik R <worikr@gmail.com> wrote:
> > It seems obvious to me that the empty string "" is length 0.
>
> You are using the wrong function to find the length of a character string.
>
> length() returns the length of the object, and length of (non-NULL)
> scalars is always 1. If you want the number of characters in a string,
> use nchar():
>
> > nchar("")
> [1] 0
>
> Peter
>

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