----- Original Message ----
> From: Megh Dal <megh700...@yahoo.com>
> To: r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch
> Sent: Wed, August 4, 2010 4:04:06 AM
> Subject: [R] Spliting a text
>
> Hi, I want to split a text to seperate numerical and non-numerical portions
> of
>that. For example suppose I have a text "abc 3456" and I want to split in 2
>parts like "abc" & "3456".
>
> Is there any function to do that?
>
> Thanks,
> full.string <- "abc 3456"
> letter.part <- sub("^([[:alpha:]]+).*$", "\\1", full.string); letter.part
[1] "abc"
> numeric.part <- sub("^[^0-9]+(.*)$", "\\1", full.string); numeric.part
[1] "3456"
>
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