The most reliable way to split such lines is with parse(text=x). Regular expressions don't do well with context-free grammars.
Bill Dunlap TIBCO Software wdunlap tibco.com On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 12:08 PM, Adrian Dușa <dusa.adr...@unibuc.ro> wrote: > Dear R-helpers, > > When parsing a text, I would like to separate commands written on the same > line, by a semicolon. > Something like: > > x <- "foo <- '3;4'; bar <- \"don't ; use semicolons\"" > > Ideally, that would translate to these two commands in a character vector > of length 2: > foo <- '3;4' > bar <- "don't ; use semicolons" > > It's probably a regexp magic, but I just can't find it. > > Any hint is highly appreciated, > Adrian > > -- > Adrian Dusa > University of Bucharest > Romanian Social Data Archive > Soseaua Panduri nr.90 > 050663 Bucharest sector 5 > Romania > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
