Indeed, thank you. The exact equivalent of index in SAS seems to me: > regexpr("bcd", "aabcd", fixed=T)[1] [1] 3
> Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 07:53:22 -0400 > Subject: Re: [R] Find index of a string inside a string? > From: jholt...@gmail.com > To: ybara...@hotmail.com > CC: r-help@r-project.org > > I think what you want is 'regexpr': > > > regexpr("bcd", "aabcd") > [1] 3 > attr(,"match.length") > [1] 3 > > > > > On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 7:27 AM, yoav baranan <ybara...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > I am searching for the equivalent of the function Index from SAS. > > > > In SAS: index("abcd", "bcd") will return 2 because bcd is located in the > > 2nd cell of the abcd string. > > The equivalent in R should do this: > >> myIndex <- foo("abcd", "bcd") #return 2. > > What is the function that I am looking for? > > > > I want to use the return value in substr, like I do in SAS. > > > > thanks, y. baranan. > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > 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. > > > > > > -- > Jim Holtman > Cincinnati, OH > +1 513 646 9390 > > What is the problem that you are trying to solve? [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.