Greg Snow wrote:
> Here is another approach that still uses strspit if you want to stay with
> that:
>
>
>> tmp <- '(-0.791,-0.263].(-38,-1.24].(0.96,2.43]'
>> strsplit(tmp, '\\.(?=\\()', perl=TRUE)
>>
> [[1]]
> [1] "(-0.791,-0.263]" "(-38,-1.24]" "(0.96,2.43]"
>
> This uses the Perl 'look-ahead' indicator to say only match on a period that
> is followed by a '(', but don't include the '(' in the match.
>
right; you could extend this pattern to split the string by every dot
that does not separate two digits, for example:
strsplit(tmp, '(?<!\\d)\\.(?!\\d)', perl=TRUE)
of course, this fails if there are numbers without a leading zero, e.g., .11
vQ
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