[R] remove Punctuation characters

[Christos Hatzis]

Try 

gsub('[[:punct:]]', '', str)

-Christos 

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[mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Filipe Almeida
Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 11:51 AM
To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: [R] remove Punctuation characters

Hi,

I want to remove all punctuation characters in a string. I was trying it use
a regular expressions but it doesn't work.
Here is a sample os what i want:

str <- 'ABD - remove de punct, and dot characters.'
str <- gsub('[:punct:]','',str)
str
"'ABD remove de punct and dot characters"

is there any function that do this kind of thing?

Thanks to all.

Filipe Almeida

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