[R] Searching within a ch. string

RON70 ron_michael70 at yahoo.com
Thu May 14 08:58:55 CEST 2009


Thanks for these suggestions. However I have one more question. Is there any
way to extract only numbers? For example I want to extract only "88" in my
example.

Regards,

MUHC-Research wrote:
> 
> Hi Ron,
> 
> Look up the grep() function.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -- 
> *Luc Villandré*
> /Biostatistician
> McGill University Health Center -
> Montreal Children's Hospital Research Institute/
> 
> RON70 wrote:
>> Hi all, is there any function to find some words in a character-string?
>> For
>> example suppose the string is : "gdfsa-sdhchc-88", now I want to find
>> whether this string contains "sdhch". Is there any R function to do that?
>>
>> Regards,
>>   
> //
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