Using the patched version of R-0.99.0, I cannot reproduce the following example from the strsplit documentation: (Example) unlist(strsplit("a.b.c", ".")) ## [1] "" "" "" "" "" ## Note that `split' is a regexp! ## If you really want to split on `.', use unlist(strsplit("a.b.c", "\.")) ## [1] "a" "b" "c" The problem is in the second example; the "\." should be "\\." Thanks for the great software. Matt Wiener -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._