How totaly obvious once you tell me! I would have spend days trying to figure
it out.
I think I have a total mental block on regex and their derivatives.
Thanks very much.
John Kane
Kingston ON Canada
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ruipbarra...@sapo.pt
> Sent: Sat, 07 Jul 2012 23:21:19 +0100
> To: jrkrid...@inbox.com
> Subject: Re: [R] Splitting a character vector.
>
> It's an empty character string, meant to substitute nothing for
> close.par, to get rid of it.
>
> Rui Barradas
>
> Em 07-07-2012 23:17, John Kane escreveu:
>> No sorry Rui,
>>
>> In the expression result <- strsplit(sub(close.par, "", dd1), open.par)
>> there is close.par, ''", open.par
>>
>> I probably am just blind but I don't understand what it is doing.
>>
>>
>>
>> John Kane
>> Kingston ON Canada
>>
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: ruipbarra...@sapo.pt
>>> Sent: Sat, 07 Jul 2012 23:08:19 +0100
>>> To: jrkrid...@inbox.com
>>> Subject: Re: [R] Splitting a character vector.
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Sorry, but I don't understand, you're asking about 4 single quotes, the
>>> double quotes in open.par are just opening and closing the pattern, a
>>> character string.
>>>
>>> Rui Barradas
>>>
>>> Em 07-07-2012 23:03, John Kane escreveu:
>>>> Thanks Rui
>>>> It works perfectly so far on the test and real data.
>>>>
>>>> The annoying thing is that I had tried , or thought I'd tried the
>>>> open.par format and keep getting an error.
>>>>
>>>> It looks like I had failed to add the '''', in the term. What is
>>>> it
>>>> doing?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> John Kane
>>>> Kingston ON Canada
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: ruipbarra...@sapo.pt
>>>>> Sent: Sat, 07 Jul 2012 22:55:41 +0100
>>>>> To: jrkrid...@inbox.com
>>>>> Subject: Re: [R] Splitting a character vector.
>>>>>
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> Try the following.
>>>>>
>>>>> open.par <- " \\(" # with a blank before '('
>>>>> close.par <- "\\)"
>>>>> result <- strsplit(sub(close.par, "", dd1), open.par)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Why the two '\\'? Because '(' is a meta-character so it must be
>>>>> escaped.
>>>>> But '\' is a meta character so it must also be escaped.
>>>>>
>>>>> Then choose the right way to separate the two, maybe something like
>>>>>
>>>>> ix <- rep(c(TRUE, FALSE), length(result))
>>>>> unlist(result)[ix]
>>>>> unlist(result)[!ix]
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hope this helps,
>>>>>
>>>>> Rui Barradas
>>>>>
>>>>> Em 07-07-2012 22:37, John Kane escreveu:
>>>>>> I am lousy at simple regex and I have not found a solution to a
>>>>>> simple
>>>>>> problem.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have a vector with some character values that I want to split.
>>>>>> Sample data
>>>>>> dd1 <- c( "XXY (mat harry)","XXY (jim bob)", "CAMP (joe blow)",
>>>>>> "ALP
>>>>>> (max jack)")
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Desired result
>>>>>> dd2 <- data.frame( xx = c("XXY", "XXY", "CAMP", "ALP"), yy =
>>>>>> c("mat
>>>>>> harry", "jim bob" , "joe blow", "max jack"))
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I thought I should be able to split the characters with strsplit but
>>>>>> either I am misunderstanding the function or don't know how to
>>>>>> escape
>>>>>> a
>>>>>> "(" properly in an effort to at least get "XXY" "(mat harry)"
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Any pointers would be appreciated
>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>> John Kane
>>>>>> Kingston ON Canada
>>>>>>
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