On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 9:29 AM, jim holtman <jholt...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Does this help:
>
>> x <-
>> c("1234567.z3.abcdef-gh.12","1234567.z3.abcdef-gh.12","1234567.z3.abcdef-gh.12")
>> y <- strsplit(x, '[.]')
Here's another way with the stringr package:
library(stringr)
x <-
c("1234567.z3.abcdef-gh.12","1234567.z3.abcdef-gh.12","1234567.z3.abcdef-gh.12")
y <- str_split_fixed(x, '[.]', 4)
y[, 1]
y[, 2]
Hadley
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