Split a string every 5 characters

Question

Suppose I have a long string:

\"XOVEWVJIEWNIGOIWENVOIWEWVWEW\"

How do I split this to get every 5 characters followed by a space?

Answer 1

Using regular expressions:

gsub("(.{5})", "\\1 ", "XOVEWVJIEWNIGOIWENVOIWEWVWEW")
# [1] "XOVEW VJIEW NIGOI WENVO IWEWV WEW"