How should I split and retain elements using strsplit?

Question

What a strsplit function in R does is, match and delete a given regular expression to split the rest of the string into vectors.

>strsplit(\"abc123def\",          


        

Answer 1

You can use strapply from gsubfn package.

test <- "abc123def"
strapply(X=test,
         pattern="([^[:digit:]]*)(\\d+)(.+)",
         FUN=c,
         simplify=FALSE)

[[1]]
[1] "abc" "123" "def"