On 07/08/2007 5:06 PM, Herve Pages wrote: > Hi, > > ?rawToChar > 'rawToChar' converts raw bytes either to a single character string > or a character vector of single bytes. (Note that a single > character string could contain embedded nuls.) > > Allowing embedded nuls in a string might be an interesting experiment but it > seems to cause some troubles to most of the string manipulation functions. > > A string with an embedded 0: > > raw0 <- as.raw(c(65:68, 0 , 70)) > string0 <- rawToChar(raw0) > >> string0 > [1] "ABCD\0F" > > nchar() should return 6: >> nchar(string0) > [1] 4
You don't state your R version. The default type of counting in nchar() has recently changed from "bytes" (where 6 is correct) to "chars" (where 4 is correct). Duncan Murdoch ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
