[R] getting last 2 charcters of a string, other "text" functions?

[Carlos J. Gil Bellosta]

gsub(".*(..)$", "\\1", "i only want the last two characters")

This is only a matter of finding the right regular expression. Use Google to
find a good tutorial on them.

Carlos J. Gil Bellosta
http://www.datanalytics.com


Quoting t c <quantpm at yahoo.com>:

> I wish to obtain the right-most n characters of a character string?  
> What is the appropriate function?
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