[R] Regular expression help

[Gabor Grothendieck]

If I understand correctly you wish to extract strings of digits more
than 5 characters long:

s <- c("UV7C11-F9-E1 MCS#9831019", "MCS Lot #9512516")
library(gsubfn)
strapply(s, "\\d{6,}", c)

Depending on what you want to get back you might wish to add the
simplify=TRUE argument to strapply, as well.  See
http://gsubfn.googlecode.com


On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 6:04 PM, Ramya <ramya.victory at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi  there
>
> I have a string like this i want to extract 9831019 from this string i used
> a regular expresion \d+ by which i can only make it to see 7 and returns.
> This type of number(9831019)  appears in any part of the string and is
> definitely more than 5 digits all the time and i want to give that as a
> condition
>
> UV7C11-F9-E1 MCS#9831019
> MCS Lot #9512516"
>
>
> how do i go abt it
>
> Ramya
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