My gsub is not working for my string, why?

Asked Jul 27 '20 at 09:27

Active Jul 27 '20 at 09:30

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this is my string:

x <- "NINSGSMN019VLKM6NINSGSMN05ZISGPBNINSGSMN04K36312NINSGSMN07AQ74H6NINSGSMN08LVCE18NINSGMDN0E57CIF6"

I want to change it to

"NINSGSMN019VLKM6"
"NINSGSMN05ZISGPB" 
"NINSGSMN04K36312"
"NINSGSMN07AQ74H6"
"NINSGSMN08LVCE18"
"NINSGMDN0E57CIF6"

so i was intending to use gsub to replace 'NINGSG' with ' NINGSG' and then use strsplit to split it by the spacebar. However I can't even do the sub.

x <- gsub("NINGSG", " NINGSG", x, ignore.case = TRUE) just returns me the exact same input

edited Jul 27 '20 at 09:30

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asked Jul 27 '20 at 09:27

helloimellie

Check your pattern. You need to use "NINSGS", not ""NINGSG" .. – r.user.05apr Jul 27 '20 at 09:33
oh. my. gosh. i have been so confused for the past hour T^T thank you so much @r.user.05apr – helloimellie Jul 27 '20 at 09:49

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