Actually the last example was all but the first word, not all but the last word. All but the last word is:
> sapply(strapply(C, "\\w+"), head, -1) [[1]] [1] "My" [[2]] [1] "Its" "really" [[3]] character(0) On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Gabor Grothendieck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > See strapply in the gsubfn package and the gsubfn home page at > gsubfn.googlecode.com. > Here we extract the words, the last word and all but the last word: > > > library(gsubfn) > > strapply(C, "\\w+") > [[1]] > [1] "My" "Dog" > > [[2]] > [1] "Its" "really" "good" > > [[3]] > [1] "Beautiful" > > > sapply(strapply(C, "\\w+"), tail, 1) > [1] "Dog" "good" "Beautiful" > > sapply(strapply(C, "\\w+"), tail, -1) > [[1]] > [1] "Dog" > > [[2]] > [1] "really" "good" > > [[3]] > character(0) > > > > On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 11:44 AM, Shubha Vishwanath Karanth > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Got all the answers using ?strsplit... Is there any way without using > > string split?... More specifically... How can I just extract the last word > > in all the strings without using ?strsplit ? > > > > Shubha Karanth | Amba Research > > Ph +91 80 3980 8031 | Mob +91 94 4886 4510 > > Bangalore * Colombo * London * New York * San José * Singapore * > > www.ambaresearch.com > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hans-Joerg > > Bibiko > > Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 9:10 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Subject: Re: [R] Number of words in a string > > > > > > On 9 Apr 2008, at 17:29, Markus Gesmann wrote: > > > Would this: > > > > > > sapply(strsplit(C, " "), length) > > > > > > work for? > > > > or > > > > length(unlist(strsplit(C, " "))) > > > > --Hans > > > > ______________________________________________ > > 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. > > This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged i...{{dropped:10}} > > > > > > ______________________________________________ > > 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.
