Hi,

a <- c("ID=NM_182905.1;Name=NM_182905;Alias=FLJ00038;Note=hypothetical protein
+ LOC375690
+ ","ID=NM_001005484;Alias=OR4F5;Note=olfactory receptor%2C family 4%2C
+ subfamily F
+ ","ID=NM_001005224.1;Name=NM_001005224;Alias=OR4F3;Note=olfactory
+ receptor%2C family 4%2C subfamily F
+ ")

fonction <- function(data,string) {
    liste <- strsplit(data,";")
    return(lapply(liste,function(x) grep(string,x)))
}

fonction(a,"ID=")
fonction(a,"Alias=")

HTH,

Alain



On 04-Aug-10 12:00, LogLord wrote:
Hi,

I have a dataframe with a rather complicated descriptive column (V9):

test3[(1:3),
      V1     V4     V5
10 1   4559   7173
17 1  58954  59871
19 1 357522 358458

V9
10 ID=NM_182905.1;Name=NM_182905;Alias=FLJ00038;Note=hypothetical protein
LOC375690
17 ID=NM_001005484;Alias=OR4F5;Note=olfactory receptor%2C family 4%2C
subfamily F
19 ID=NM_001005224.1;Name=NM_001005224;Alias=OR4F3;Note=olfactory
receptor%2C family 4%2C subfamily F
I have problems to extract two strings from this column (V9). First I need
the "ID=..." and second I need the "Alias=..." both in seperate columns. I
tried it with substr() but due to the different length and no wildcard
allowance it did not work.

Would be glad for any help!

Thanks in advance.

--
Alain Guillet
Statistician and Computer Scientist

SMCS - IMMAQ - Université catholique de Louvain
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