From cberry@tajo.ucsd.edu  Sat Dec 18 02:47:04 1999
From: cberry@tajo.ucsd.edu (cberry@tajo.ucsd.edu)
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 03:47:04 +0100 (MET)
Subject: strsplit does not conform to documentation (PR#379)
Message-ID: <199912180247.DAA07122@pubhealth.ku.dk>


Description:

     Split the Strings in `x' into substrings according to
     the presence of substring `split' within them.

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> strsplit("acbdefgSPLIThigkilmnSpPqrst","SPLIT")
[[1]]
[1] "acbdefg"  "higkilmn" "p"        "qrst"  

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Apparently, it will 

Split the Strings in `x' into substrings according to the presence of
ANY CHARACTER FOUND IN substring `split'.

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Was this intended? I expected, as the documentation implies that the
result from above would be:

"acbdefg"   "higkilmnSpPqrst"


Chuck Berry

--please do not edit the information below--

Version:
 platform = sparc-sun-solaris2.7
 arch = sparc
 os = solaris2.7
 system = sparc, solaris2.7
 status = Release
 major = 0
 minor = 65.1
 year = 1999
 month = October
 day = 07
 language = R

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 .GlobalEnv, Autoloads, package:base
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strsplit does not conform to documentation (PR#379)
cberry@tajo.ucsd.edu