Will all the keywords always be present in the same order? Or are you looking for the keywords, but some may be absent or in different orders?
Look into the gsubfn package for some tools that could help. -----Original Message----- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of sunny Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 5:09 PM To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: [R] split character vector by multiple keywords simultaneously Hi. I have a character vector that looks like this: > temp <- c("Company name: The first company General Manager: John Doe I > Managers: John Doe II, John Doe III","Company name: The second company > General Manager: Jane Doe I","Company name: The third company Managers: > Jane Doe II, Jane Doe III") > temp [1] "Company name: The first company General Manager: John Doe I Managers: John Doe II, John Doe III" [2] "Company name: The second company General Manager: Jane Doe I" [3] "Company name: The third company Managers: Jane Doe II, Jane Doe III" I know all the keywords, i.e. "Company name:", "General Manager:", "Managers:" etc. I'm looking for a way to split this character vector into multiple character vectors, with one column for each keyword and the corresponding values for each, i.e. Company name General Manager Managers 1 The first company John Doe I John Doe II, John Doe III 2 The second company Jane Doe I 3 The third company Jane Doe II, Jane Doe III I have tried a lot to find something suitable but haven't so far. Any help will be greatly appreciated. I am running R-2.12.1 on x86_64 linux. Thanks. -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/split-character-vector-by-multiple-keywords-simultaneously-tp3497033p3497033.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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. ______________________________________________ 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.
