Try this:

sapply(strsplit(i, ' '), grep, pattern='ENSP', value = T)

On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Praveen Surendran <praveen.surend...@ucd.ie
> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
>
> Is there a way in R to get the string which matches the expression, where
> the expression is a substring of the parent string.
>
>
>
> Lets say, I have $i <- "transcript:ENST0000112334 pid:ENSP000012345"
>
> What I need is the string "pid:ENSP000012345" from $i using the query
> "ENSP".
>
>
>
> Appreciate your comments.
>
>
>
> Praveen  Surendran
>
> School of Medicine and Medical Sciences
>
> University College Dublin
>
> Belfiled, Dublin 4
>
> Ireland.
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