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splitByPattern

Splits a single character string by pattern

Description

Splits a single character string by pattern. The main difference compared to strsplit() is that this method also returns the part of the string that matched the pattern. Also, it only takes a single character string.

Usage

## Default S3 method:
splitByPattern(str, pattern, ...)

Arguments

`str`	A single `character` string to be split.
`pattern`	A regular expression `character` string.
`...`	Not used.

Value

Returns a named character vector with names equal to "TRUE" if element is a pattern part and "FALSE" otherwise.

Author(s)

Henrik Bengtsson

Examples

rspCode <- "<body>Hello <%=\"world\"%></body>"
rspParts <- splitByPattern(rspCode, pattern="<%.*%>")
cat(rspCode, "\n")
print(rspParts)

R.utils

Various Programming Utilities

v2.10.1

LGPL (>= 2.1)

Authors

Henrik Bengtsson [aut, cre, cph]

Initial release