Hi Santosh,
you may also try require(stringr) x <- "abcdefghijklcd" str_locate_all(x,"cd") On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Petr Savicky <savi...@cs.cas.cz> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 05, 2010 at 08:04:08AM +0530, Santosh Srinivas wrote: > > I am trying to find the function where I can search for a pattern in a > > text string (I thought I could use grep for this but no :(). > > > > > x > > [1] "abcdefghijkl" > > > > I want to find the positions (i.e. equivalent of nchar) for "cd" and > > in case there are multiple hits .. then the results as a array > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.