[R] matching problem

[Henrique Dallazuanna]

One option is:

strapply(mystring, "\\{[^\\}]+" , function(x)gsub("\\{", "", x), perl = F)

On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Tom.O <tom.olsson at dnbnor.com> wrote:
>
> I have a matching problem that I cant solve.
> mystring = "xxx{XX}yy{YYY}zzz{Z}" where "x","X","y","Y","z","Z" basiclly can
> be anything, letters, digits etc. I'm only interested in the content within
> each "{}".
>
> I am close but not really there yet.
>
> library(gsubfn)
> strapply(mystring,"\\{[^\\}]+",, perl=F)
>
> gives me
> [[1]]
> [1] "{XX"  "{YYY" "{Z"
>
> but what should I add in the code to remove the "{" in the answer
>
> Regards Tom
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