Frank, all:
In SP 2000 the code results in a one string vector with multiple
replacements as you describe.
-- Bert
Bert Gunter
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> From: Frank E Harrell Jr[SMTP:fharrell@virginia.edu]
> Sent: Friday, September 15, 2000 2:33 PM
> To: s-news
> Subject: [S] substring<- and generalization of regexpr
>
> s
> In S-Plus 6.0 beta 2 (and probably 5.x),
> substring(x, c(1,3), c(1,3)) <- 'x'
> for example will result in a vector of 2 character strings even if
> x is a character string having one element. I think the
> proper behavior should be to do multiple replacements within
> a single character string, resulting in a one-vector.
>
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