On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 09:11:59PM -0400, Byron Ellis wrote: > THAT'S how you find the length of a string?!! *smacks forehead* I
Seconded. Could we even alias this for strlen or something similar? I still start by looking for C library equivalents as that works often enough, but string length was one of these things I had been missing. Dirk > ended up doing a regex for /$^/. Man, I feel stupid. > > On Friday, August 29, 2003, at 01:59 PM, Wolfram Fischer wrote: > > >I would propose to add " > > See also: > > `nchar' for counting the number of character in > > character vectors. > >" > >to the helpfile of length(), > >because it is rather difficult > >to find nchar() if one has only > >search terms as "length", "len", > >"strlen" in mind. > > > >Sincerly > > > >Wolfram Fischer > > > >______________________________________________ > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > >https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > ______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > -- Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others. -- Groucho Marx ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
