[R] regex sulotion for seperating number and string

[sun]

Thanks all for the prompt answers!!!  All works perfectly!

up and running! Thanks!

"jim holtman" <jholtman at gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> This should do it for you:
>
>> x <- c("2564gc", "2367,GH", "2134 JHG")
>> x.sep <- gsub("([[:digit:]]+)[ ,]*([[:alpha:]]+)", "\\1 \\2", x)
>> # now create separate values
>> strsplit(x.sep, " ")
> [[1]]
> [1] "2564" "gc"
>
> [[2]]
> [1] "2367" "GH"
>
> [[3]]
> [1] "2134" "JHG"
>
>>
>
>
> On 3/5/08, sun <flyhyena at yahoo.com.cn> wrote:
>> I have strings contain postcode and letters, some seperated with blank, 
>> some
>> with comma, and some hasn't seperated. eg, "2324gz"  "2567 HK" "3741,BF"
>>
>> I want to seperate the number and letters into two new variables.
>>
>> I know this should be quite basic question, but searched on regex syntax 
>> and
>> that seems a bit scarey to me, any one can shot me a quick solution on 
>> this
>> particular question?
>>
>> thanks,
>> Sun
>>
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>
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> What is the problem you are trying to solve?
>
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