Yes, strsplit will do it. strsplit returns a list, so you can either use unlist to coerce the string to a single character vector, or use the list index [[1]] to access first element. x <- paste(LETTERS, collapse = “”) unlist(strsplit(x, split = “”)) # [1] “A” “B” “C” “D” “E” “F” “G” “H” “I” … Read more
Let’s assume that you have a function isWord(w), which checks if w is a word using a dictionary. Let’s for simplicity also assume for now that you only want to know whether for some word w such a splitting is possible. This can be easily done with dynamic programming. Let S[1..length(w)] be a table with … Read more
To split a string with a regular expression in VBA: Public Function SplitRe(Text As String, Pattern As String, Optional IgnoreCase As Boolean) As String() Static re As Object If re Is Nothing Then Set re = CreateObject(“VBScript.RegExp”) re.Global = True re.MultiLine = True End If re.IgnoreCase = IgnoreCase re.Pattern = Pattern SplitRe = Strings.Split(re.Replace(text, ChrW(-1)), … Read more
With JavaScript’s String.prototype.split function: var input=”john smith~123 Street~Apt 4~New York~NY~12345″; var fields = input.split(‘~’); var name = fields[0]; var street = fields[1]; // etc.