Split string into substrings on one or more whitespaces

Question

I want to split a string into several substrings at those positions where one or more whitespaces (tab, space,...) occur. In the documentation of strsplit() it says, that sp

Answer 1

Try

strsplit(test, '\\s+')
[[1]]
[1] "123"    "nnn"    "ffffdffffd"

\\s will match all the whitespace characters.