[R] using grep

[William Dunlap]

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> Hi ,
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> I have tried
> 
> gsub(".*York(\\d+).*", "\\1", grep("New York", x, value = TRUE)) 
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> and outputs 
> 
>  "P New York722AZ" "K New York20" 
> but that is not what i want, I want the output to be 
> 
> 722,20

Does it work if you replace the "\\d" in
the pattern with "[0-9]"?  If so, your
regular expression code doesn't recognize
the "\\d" to mean "a decimal digit".

Bill Dunlap
Spotfire, TIBCO Software
wdunlap tibco.com  

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