[R] Re move all punctuations except commas

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Here is a second solution that may be closer to
what you were thinking of in terms of structure:

library(gsubfn)
gsubfn("[[:punct:]]", ~ sub("[^,]", "", x), string)

This matches each punctuation character and then
removes any non-commas by applying the
function function(x)sub("[^,]", "", x)

gsubfn is just like gsub except the replacement
string can be a replacement function and one
can abbreviate the function using a formula
notation as shown.

See http://gsubfn.googlecode.com


On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Gabor
Grothendieck<ggrothendieck at gmail.com> 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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