Questions tagged [strsplit]

strsplit is a function in R (documentation) and MATLAB (documentation), which splits the elements of a character vector into substrings:

# R:  
strsplit(x, split, fixed=FALSE)

% MATLAB
strsplit(x, split);

Splits a character string or vector of character strings using a regular expression or a literal (fixed) string. The strsplit function outputs a list (R) or cell array (MATLAB), where each list item corresponds to an element of x that has been split.

• x a character string or vector of character strings to split.
• split the character string to split x.
  In R, if split is an empty string (""), then x is split between every character.
• [R only:] fixed if the split argument should be treated as fixed (i.e. literally). By default, the setting is FALSE, which means that split is treated like a regular expression.