R help - Jul 2010 - specify blank in a string with special characters

is there a way to specify a blank in a string with special/escape  
characters?
like:

"and now a blank%%%%and text after the blank",

where %%%% stand for the specification of the blank character

TIA
Mark

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Mark Heckmann
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On 20/07/2010 9:00 AM, Mark Heckmann wrote:
> is there a way to specify a blank in a string with special/escape  
> characters?
> like:
>
> "and now a blank%%%%and text after the blank",
>
> where %%%% stand for the specification of the blank character
The answer to your question is "yes", because you just did.  But I
think
you have something more in mind:  what part of R should recognize those 
special characters as blanks?

Duncan Murdoch

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On 20/07/2010 10:09 AM, Mark Heckmann wrote:
>   will reformulate the question:
>
> I use strsplit() to split a string at the blanks. e.g.
>
>  > strsplit("Split at blanks", " ")
> [[1]]
> [1] "Split"  "at"     "blanks"
>
> Now I would like to write something like a protected blank (like e.g.  
> in LaTex) into the string  that does not get split
> by strsplit() but still gives a blank when printed. E.g.
>
>  > strsplit("Split%at blanks", " ")
> [[1]]
> [1] "Split at"     "blanks"
>
> Is that possible?
>   
Many character sets (latin1, Unicode, etc.) include some special 
"non-breaking spaces" which would work really well, if you can enter 
them. For example, you can enter these as \u{a0} or \u00a0, and then 
things will look just right:

x <- "Split\u{a0}at blanks"
x
strsplit(x, " ")

Duncan Murdoch
> Am 20.07.2010 um 15:26 schrieb Duncan Murdoch:
>
> > On 20/07/2010 9:00 AM, Mark Heckmann wrote:
> >> is there a way to specify a blank in a string with special/escape
> >> characters?
> >> like:
> >>
> >> "and now a blank%%%%and text after the blank",
> >>
> >> where %%%% stand for the specification of the blank character
> >
> > The answer to your question is "yes", because you just did. 
But I
> > think you have something more in mind:  what part of R should  
> > recognize those special characters as blanks?
> >
> > Duncan Murdoch
>
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> Vorstra?e 93 B01
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Hi, you can define delimiters

strsplit("Split%at blanks", " |%")

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