On 5/15/07, elyakhlifi mustapha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> hello,
>
> I have an argument of a the list a like this
>
> > a[[18]]
> [1] "C744=(C627*C177)/100"
>
>
> and I wanna seperate the character and the mathematics symbol to use it like
> a formula
> and why when I used the strsplit function i obtain as follow
>
> > strsplit(a[[18]], '\\W')
> [[1]]
> [1] "C744" "" "C627" "C177" "" "100"
>
> and as follow
>
> > strsplit(a[[18]], '\\w')
> [[1]]
> [1] "" "" "" "" "=(" "" "" "" "*" "" "" "" ")/" "" ""
>
> I don't understand why the star "*" doesn't create space between "C627" and
> "C177"
>
You can see what is going on by doing this:
> txt <- " C744=(C627*C177)/100"
> gsub("(\\w)", "[\\1]", txt)
[1] " [C][7][4][4]=([C][6][2][7]*[C][1][7][7])/[1][0][0]"
> gsub("(\\W)", "[\\1]", txt)
[1] "[ ]C744[=][(]C627[*]C177[)][/]100"
The portions within [...] are the separators and everything else is output
as content separated by those separators.
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