On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 4:49 AM, Ron Michael <ron_michae...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi all, I want to club different objects (character type) to a single one and
> using paste() function that can be done happily. However the problem with
> paste function is the separator field is unique for all underlying objects.
> If I put separator as "-" then this will come in between all underlying
> objects which are to be clubbed.
>
> Therefore I am wondering whether there is any mechanism to put different
> separators for different places. Trivially this can be done by applying
> paste() function repeatedly. However I feel there must be some single
> mechanism for doing that.
>
> Here is one example, where I apply paste() function twice to incorporate 2
> different separators:
>> paste(paste("a", "b", sep=","), "c", sep=":")
> [1] "a,b:c"
>
> Can the same thing be done using paste() function once? something like:
> paste("a", "b", "c", sep=c(",", ":")) # this put 1st separator everywhere
> which is not intended
>
Try sprintf instead:
sprintf("%s,%s:%s", "a", "b", "c")
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