String - Display and Splitting in R Language

Operations with Strings

Command strsplit, split the element of a character vector.

"Split" can be a single character, or a character string:

Usage 
strsplit (x,  split,  fixed = FALSE, ...)

Arguments
 x              character vector, each element of which is to be split.
 split    character vector containing regular expression(s) (unless fixed = TRUE) to use for splitting.

With a command strsplit, we can split a string in pieces.

> x <-  "The&! syntax&! of&! paste&! is&! !&available!& in the online-help"
> x 
[1]  "The&! syntax&! of&! paste&! is&! !&available!& in the online-help"

> strsplit (x , " ! ")
 [ [1] ]
 [1]     "The&"        "syntax&"       "of&"
 [4]     "paste&"      "is"                  "available"
 [7]     "&inthe online-help"