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strsplit on first instance

I would like to write a strsplit command that grabs the first ")" and splits the string.

For example:

f("12)34)56")
"12" "34)56"

I have read over several other related regex SO questions but I am afraid I am not able to make heads or tails of this. Thank you any assistance.

Solution

  • You could get the same list-type result as you would with strsplit if you used regexpr to get the first match, and then the inverted result of regmatches.

    x <- "12)34)56"
regmatches(x, regexpr(")", x), invert = TRUE)
# [[1]]
# [1] "12"    "34)56"