Works perfectly. Thank you very much indeed. John Kane Kingston ON Canada
> -----Original Message----- > From: dwinsem...@comcast.net > Sent: Sat, 7 Jul 2012 21:45:58 -0400 > To: jrkrid...@inbox.com > Subject: Re: [R] Splitting a character vector. > > > On Jul 7, 2012, at 5:37 PM, John Kane wrote: > >> 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")) > > data.frame(xx=sub("(\\s\\(.+$)", "", dd1), > yy=sub("(.+)(\\s\\()(.+)(\\)$)", "\\3", dd1) ) > xx yy > 1 XXY mat harry > 2 XXY jim bob > 3 CAMP joe blow > 4 ALP 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)" >> > > > David Winsemius, MD > Heritage Laboratories > West Hartford, CT ____________________________________________________________ FREE 3D EARTH SCREENSAVER - Watch the Earth right on your desktop! ______________________________________________ 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.