Hi , Is there any inbuilt functions to check whether a substring is present in a string and give the result as boolean Thanks -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/String-Manipulation-in-R-tp4633104.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
grepl Michael On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 8:51 AM, anjali <jeeviram at gmail.com> wrote:> Hi , > Is there any inbuilt functions ?to check whether a substring is present in a > string and give the result as boolean > Thanks > > > -- > View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/String-Manipulation-in-R-tp4633104.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list > 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.
?grepl
Note that this function uses regular expressions, in which certain characters
have special meanings, so depending on what string you are looking for you may
have to know something about regex patterns to get it to work.
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anjali <jeeviram at gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi ,
>Is there any inbuilt functions to check whether a substring is present
>in a
>string and give the result as boolean
>Thanks
>
>
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>http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
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Hello,
Yes, there is. See ?grepl or help('grepl').
Hope this helps,
Rui Barradas
Em 12-06-2012 14:51, anjali escreveu:> Hi ,
> Is there any inbuilt functions to check whether a substring is present in
a
> string and give the result as boolean
> Thanks
>
>
> --
> View this message in context:
http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/String-Manipulation-in-R-tp4633104.html
> Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
>
> ______________________________________________
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> 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.
>