Split Character String at Whitespace in R
In this article, we are going to discuss how to split character strings at white space in R programming language.
Method 1: Using strsplit() function
strsplit() function is used to split the string based on some condition.
Syntax:
strsplit(input_string, ” +”)
where
- input_string is the string
- ” +” represents to be split at white space
Example: R program to split a given string
R
string1= "Hello Geeks we are in Java Python R and CPP"
print ( strsplit (string1, " +" ))
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Output:
[[1]]
[1] “Hello” “Geeks” “we” “are” “in” “Java” “Python” “R”
[9] “and” “CPP”
It is stored in index 1 in a list so we can modify our code a little by using the index 1 position.
Example: R program to split a given string
R
string1= "Hello Geeks we are in Java Python R and CPP"
print ( strsplit (string1, " +" )[[1]])
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Output:
[1] “Hello” “Geeks” “we” “are” “in” “Java” “Python” “R”
[9] “and” “CPP”
Method 2: Using scan() function
This function is also used to split the string by scanning the elements.
Syntax:
scan(text = input_string, what = “”)
Where,
- the text parameter is used to store input string
- what is a parameter that can take white space which specifies the string to be split at whitespace
It will also display how many times is scanned (It will return the number of split words).
Example: R program to split a string at white space using scan() function
R
string1= "Hello Geeks we are in Java Python R and CPP"
print ( scan (text = string1, what = "" ))
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Output:
Read 10 items
[1] “Hello” “Geeks” “we” “are” “in” “Java” “Python” “R”
[9] “and” “CPP”
Example: R program to split a string at white space using scan() function
R
string1= "There are big branches in India"
print ( scan (text = string1, what = "" ))
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Output:
Read 6 items
[1] “There” “are” “big” “branches” “in” “India”
Last Updated :
23 Sep, 2021
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