Character-wise String Comparison in R

If you have two strings in R and want to check character-by-character equality:

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a <- "abcdef"
b <- "abcdff"
Reduce(`==`, strsplit(c(a, b), ""))

This results in:

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> Reduce(`==`, strsplit(c(a, b), ""))
[1]  TRUE  TRUE  TRUE  TRUE FALSE  TRUE