[R] How to trim the front of a string?

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Here are three ways:

> substring("blackberry", 6)
[1] "berry"
> sub("^black", "", "blackberry")
[1] "berry"
> sub(".{5}", "", "blackberry")
[1] "berry"


On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 4:05 PM, rok90 <ivansek.labris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hey everybody!
>
> I have a problem with triming a string. I can get rid of the blank space in
> front and at the back of a string and even trim a string at the back. But I
> don't know how to do it in the front.
>
> For Example: I have a string "Blackberry" and i want to delete the first 5
> characters to get just "berry".
>
> Tnx for your help
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