Hi, I have a flat file that contains a bunch of strings that look like this. The file was originally in Unix and brought over into Windows:
E123456E234567E345678E456789E567891E678910E. . . . Basically the string starts with E and is followed with 6 numbers. One string=E123456, length=7 characters. This file contains 10,000's of these strings. I want to separate them into one vector the length of the number of strings in the flat file, where each string is it's on unique value. cc<-c(7,7,7,7,7,7,7) > aa<- file("Master","r", raw=TRUE) > readChar(aa, cc, useBytes = FALSE) [1] "E123456" "\nE23456" "7\nE3456" "78\nE456" "789\nE56" "7891\nE6" "78910\nE" > close(aa) > unlink("Master") The biggest issue is I am getting \n added into the string, which I am not sure where it is coming from, and splices the strings. Any suggestions on getting rid of the /n and create an infinite sequence of 7's for the string length for the cc vector? Is there a better way to do this? Sarah [[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.