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Given a string,

mystr = "Average student score       88"

I wish to split if there are more than 1 space. I wish to obtain the following:

"Average student score" "88"

I searched that "\s+" will split by any number of spaces. 

strsplit(mystr, "\\s+")

But this is not what I want. Is there any option within strsplit that can split strings based on a certain number of spaces (say space = k) or a rule on spaces (say space > 1)?

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You may specify it through a repetition quantifier.

strsplit(mystr, "\\s{2,}")

\\s{2,} regex should match two or more spaces.

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  • Thank you! Is there an option for matching an exact number of spaces too? – user2498497 Jan 21 '16 at 05:44
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    ya, remove the comma. `\\s{2}` for matching exactly two spaces,For 3, it would be `\\s{3}`, and to match min of 3 and max of 4 then it would be `\\s{3,4}` – Avinash Raj Jan 21 '16 at 05:45