[R] Re move all punctuations except commas

Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendieck at gmail.com
Thu Aug 6 17:27:08 CEST 2009


In the solution you cite, yes.  In the second solution I provided
in the subsequent (second) response to your question, no.

On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Rnewbie<xuancj at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> 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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