R: Break a String into Many Lines at Newlines

string.break.line {Hmisc} | R Documentation

## Break a String into Many Lines at Newlines

### Description

Takes a string and breaks it into seperate substrings where there are newline characters.

### Usage

    string.break.line(string)

### Arguments

`string` | character vector to be separated into many lines.

### Value

Returns a list that is the same length of as the `string` argument.

Each list element is a character vector.

Each character vectors elements are the split lines of the corresponding element in the `string` argument vector.

### Author(s)

Charles Dupont

### See Also

`strsplit`

### Examples

    a <- c('', 'this is a single line string',
           'This is a\nmulti-line string.')

    b <- string.break.line(a)

[Package Hmisc version 4.0-3 Index]