[R] a grep/regexpr problem

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Try this:

gsub(".*{|}","",s)

which deletes everything up to and including the { and then deletes
the }.

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Date:   Fri, 06 Feb 2004 13:49:30 -0500 
From:   Rajarshi Guha <rxg218 at psu.edu>
To:   R <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch> 
Subject:   [R] a grep/regexpr problem 

 
Hi,
I'm trying to parse lines of the form:

dan001.hin (0): fingerprint={256, 411, 426, 947, 973, 976}

What I need is the sequence of number between {}. I'm using grep as

match <- grep("{([0-9,\s]*)}",s,perl=T,value=T)

where s is a character vector.

But all I get is the whole string s. I tried using regexpr in an attempt
to get just the sequence I wanted:

match <- regexpr("{([0-9,\s]*)}", s , perl=T) 

but then I get -1 as the return value indicating that there was no
match. 

If grep is able to return the matched element (though I dont know why
the whole string is being returned) why is regexpr failing?

Finally, could anybody provide a hint as to how I should modify the
regex to get the sequence between {}. (I've used the same regex in
Python code to get the sequence and it works fine.)

Thanks,


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