grabLast {Smisc}R Documentation

Get the final set of characters after a single-character delimeter

Description

Get the final set of characters from a vector after a single-character delimeter. This can be useful in filename manipulations, among other things.

Usage

grabLast(vec, split.char)

Arguments

vec

Character vector (usually containing filenames)

split.char

A single character used to split the character strings

Value

Character vector of the strings that appear after the last instance of split.char

Author(s)

Landon Sego

See Also

Additional functions for filename manipulations: stripExtension, getExtension, stripPath, getPath, basename, dirname

Examples

grabLast(c(a="email@nowhere.com", "this.has.no.at.sign", "@",
             "bad.email@weird.com@", NA, "2at's@email@good.net"), "@")

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