[R] matching problem
Hans-Joerg Bibiko
bibiko at eva.mpg.de
Fri Jun 27 15:59:03 CEST 2008
On 27 Jun 2008, at 13:56, Tom.O wrote:
>
> Well I have tried that and it's unfortuanally not the solution.
> This return all the characters in the string, but I dont want the
> characters
> after the ending non-character symbol. Only the starting characters
> ore of
> interest.
>
>> gsub("\\W*","", myexstrings,perl=T)
> [1] "AAAAA" "BBBBB" "CCC" "ddd"
>
Oops,
try this one:
gsub("^\\W*(\\w+)\\W.*","\\1", myexstrings,perl=T)
--Hans
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