This was just what I wanted, thanks!!
Am 20.07.2010 um 16:43 schrieb Duncan Murdoch:
> On 20/07/2010 10:09 AM, Mark Heckmann wrote:
>> will reformulate the question:
>>
>> I use strsplit() to split a string at the blanks. e.g.
>>
>> > strsplit("Split at blanks", " ")
>> [[1]]
>> [1] "Split" "at" "blanks"
>>
>> Now I would like to write something like a protected blank (like
>> e.g. in LaTex) into the string that does not get split
>> by strsplit() but still gives a blank when printed. E.g.
>>
>> > strsplit("Split%at blanks", " ")
>> [[1]]
>> [1] "Split at" "blanks"
>>
>> Is that possible?
>>
>
> Many character sets (latin1, Unicode, etc.) include some special
> "non-breaking spaces" which would work really well, if you can enter
> them. For example, you can enter these as \u{a0} or \u00a0, and then
> things will look just right:
>
> x <- "Split\u{a0}at blanks"
> x
> strsplit(x, " ")
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
>> Am 20.07.2010 um 15:26 schrieb Duncan Murdoch:
>>
>> > On 20/07/2010 9:00 AM, Mark Heckmann wrote:
>> >> is there a way to specify a blank in a string with special/
>> escape >> characters?
>> >> like:
>> >>
>> >> "and now a blank%%%%and text after the blank",
>> >>
>> >> where %%%% stand for the specification of the blank character
>> >
>> > The answer to your question is "yes", because you just did. But
>> I > think you have something more in mind: what part of R should
>> > recognize those special characters as blanks?
>> >
>> > Duncan Murdoch
>>
>>
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