Can be used as a substitute of the base function. Main claim to fame is easing the split around the defined delimiter, see example.
Arguments
- x
data
- split
delimiter
- type
Split type. Can be c("classic", "before", "after", "around")
- perl
perl param from strsplit()
- ...
additional parameters are passed to base strsplit handling splits
Examples
test <- c("12 months follow-up", "3 steps", "mRS 6 weeks", "Counting to 231 now")
strsplitx(test,"[0-9]",type="around")
#> [[1]]
#> [1] "1" "2" " months follow-up"
#>
#> [[2]]
#> [1] "3" " steps"
#>
#> [[3]]
#> [1] "mRS " "6" " weeks"
#>
#> [[4]]
#> [1] "Counting to " "2" "3" "1" " now"
#>