Re: [Rd] strsplit and the empty string

2008-08-21 Thread Wacek Kusnierczyk
Christian Brechbühler wrote: > > I checked Perl, and it does exactly the same: > print join "==", split / /, " hello dolly " > ==hello==dolly > (that's 3 elements: "", "hello", and "dolly"). > try perl -e 'print join "==", split " ", " hello dolly "' ;) vQ _

Re: [Rd] strsplit and the empty string

2008-06-18 Thread Wacek Kusnierczyk
Oh my, I regret my stupidity. Christian Brechbühler wrote: > > With R version 2.6.1 Patched (2007-11-26 r43541), I get > Error in strsplit(" hello dolly ") : > argument "split" is missing, with no default > > But strsplit(" hello dolly ", " ") reproduces your results. > > of course, t

Re: [Rd] strsplit and the empty string

2008-06-18 Thread Christian Brechbühler
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 8:45 AM, Wacek Kusnierczyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asked for opinions: > > When the pattern > matches the beginning of the search string, the empty string is added to > the result, but that's not the case when the pattern matches the end of > the search string: > > strsplit(" he