R split on delimiter (split) keep the delimiter (split)

Question

In R you can use the strsplit function to split a vector on a delimiter(split) as follows:

x <- \"What is this?  It\'s an onion.         


        

Answer 1

You can use "(?<=DELIMITERS)":

unlist(strsplit(x, "(?<=[?.!|])", perl=TRUE))

## [1] "What is this?"    "  It's an onion." "  What!"          " That's|"        
## [5] " Well Crazy.