[R] Re move all punctuations except commas

Rnewbie xuancj at yahoo.com
Thu Aug 6 17:17:21 CEST 2009


it works, but does that mean I really have to specify what to keep rather
than what to remove?


Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> 
> Try something along these lines:
> 
> gsub("[^[:alnum:][:space:],]", "", string)
> 
> 
> On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 8:37 AM, Rnewbie<xuancj at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I wanted to remove all punctuations except commas from a string.
>>
>> I used:
>>
>> gsub("[[:punct:]]", "", string)
>>
>> but I don't know how to exclude the commas ",". Anyone would kindly
>> answer
>> my basic question?
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