Re: reversing the order of strings

[Chuck Cleland <ccleland@optonline.net>]

Another one-liner:

X <- c("abc", "ffd", "sad")

sapply(lapply(strsplit(X, split=""), rev), paste, collapse="")

[1] "cba" "dff" "das"

Khan, Sohail wrote:
> Dear List,
>
> I have character vector as follows:
> "abc"
> "ffd"
> "sad"
> How can I reverse the string so that
> "cba"
> "ffd"
> "das"
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> Sohail Khan
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