[R] gsub

[Sean Davis]

You might want to look at ?regex.

Sean

On Sep 23, 2004, at 10:03 AM, Jean Eid wrote:

> Hi
>
> A while back I used gsub to do the following
>
> temp<-"000US00231"
> gsub("something here", "", temp)
> "00231"
>
> I think it involved the `meta characters' somehow.
>
> I do not know how to do this anymore. I know strsplit will also work 
> but I
> remember gsub was much faster.  In essence the question is how to 
> delete
> all characters before a particular pattern.
>
> If anyone has some help file for this, it will be greatly appreciated.
>
>
> Jean Eid
>
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