See strapply in the gsubfn package and the gsubfn home page at gsubfn.googlecode.com. Here we extract the words, the last word and all but the last word:
> library(gsubfn) > strapply(C, "\\w+") [[1]] [1] "My" "Dog" [[2]] [1] "Its" "really" "good" [[3]] [1] "Beautiful" > sapply(strapply(C, "\\w+"), tail, 1) [1] "Dog" "good" "Beautiful" > sapply(strapply(C, "\\w+"), tail, -1) [[1]] [1] "Dog" [[2]] [1] "really" "good" [[3]] character(0) On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 11:44 AM, Shubha Vishwanath Karanth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Got all the answers using ?strsplit... Is there any way without using string > split?... More specifically... How can I just extract the last word in all > the strings without using ?strsplit ? > > Shubha Karanth | Amba Research > Ph +91 80 3980 8031 | Mob +91 94 4886 4510 > Bangalore * Colombo * London * New York * San José * Singapore * > www.ambaresearch.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hans-Joerg > Bibiko > Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 9:10 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [R] Number of words in a string > > > On 9 Apr 2008, at 17:29, Markus Gesmann wrote: > > Would this: > > > > sapply(strsplit(C, " "), length) > > > > work for? > > or > > length(unlist(strsplit(C, " "))) > > --Hans > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged i...{{dropped:10}} > > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > ______________________________________________ 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.