[R] grep for strings

[jim holtman]

> x <- "abcdefghijkl"
> ?regexpr
starting httpd help server ... done
> regexpr('cd', x)
[1] 3
attr(,"match.length")
[1] 2
>


On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 9:34 PM, Santosh Srinivas
<santosh.srinivas at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am trying to find the function where I can search for a pattern in a
> text string (I thought I could use grep for this but no :().
>
>> x
> [1] "abcdefghijkl"
>
> I want to find the positions (i.e. equivalent of nchar) for "cd" and
> in case there are multiple hits .. then the results as a array
>
> Thank you.
>
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Jim Holtman
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