Hello a <- c("Mama", "Papa", "Papa; Mama", "", "Sammy; Mama; Papa") a <- strsplit(a, "; ") mama <- rep(F, length(a)) mama[sapply(a, function(x) { sum(x=="Mama") }, simplify=T) > 0] <- T papa <- rep(F, length(a)) papa[sapply(a, function(x) { sum(x=="Papa") }, simplify=T) > 0] <- T # ... more variables
... produces the variables "mama" and "papa" correctly. But how do I remove all "Mama" list entries in "a" in the same run, that is, shrink the list by what was already matched?
Thank you for your help! Sören Vogel -- Sören Vogel, Dipl.-Psych. (Univ.), PhD-Student, Eawag, Dept. SIAM http://www.eawag.ch, http://sozmod.eawag.ch ______________________________________________ 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.