Find the location of a character in string

You can use gregexpr

 gregexpr(pattern ='2',"the2quickbrownfoxeswere2tired")


[[1]]
[1]  4 24
attr(,"match.length")
[1] 1 1
attr(,"useBytes")
[1] TRUE

or perhaps str_locate_all from package stringr which is a wrapper for gregexpr stringi::stri_locate_all (as of stringr version 1.0)

library(stringr)
str_locate_all(pattern ='2', "the2quickbrownfoxeswere2tired")

[[1]]
     start end
[1,]     4   4
[2,]    24  24

note that you could simply use stringi

library(stringi)
stri_locate_all(pattern = '2', "the2quickbrownfoxeswere2tired", fixed = TRUE)

Another option in base R would be something like

lapply(strsplit(x, ''), function(x) which(x == '2'))

should work (given a character vector x)

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