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Split up a string (with separators) into a character vector.

Source: R/bruceR_utils.R
cc.Rd

Split up a string (with separators) into a character vector (whitespace around separator is trimmed).

Usage

cc(..., sep = "auto", trim = TRUE)

Arguments

...

Character string(s).

sep

Pattern for separation. Defaults to "auto": , ; | \n \t

trim

Remove whitespace from start and end of string(s)? Defaults to TRUE.

Value

Character vector.

Examples

cc("a,b,c,d,e")
#> [1] "a" "b" "c" "d" "e"

cc(" a , b , c , d , e ")
#> [1] "a" "b" "c" "d" "e"

cc(" a , b , c , d , e ", trim=FALSE)
#> [1] " a " " b " " c " " d " " e "

cc("1, 2, 3, 4, 5")
#> [1] "1" "2" "3" "4" "5"

cc("A 1 , B 2 ; C 3 | D 4 \t E 5")
#> [1] "A 1" "B 2" "C 3" "D 4" "E 5"

cc("A, B, C",
   " D | E ",
   c("F", "G"))
#> [1] "A" "B" "C" "D" "E" "F" "G"

cc("
American
British
Chinese
")
#> [1] "American" "British"  "Chinese"