[R] string handling

[jim holtman]

try this:

> x <- "1234C/Tasdf"
> y <- strsplit(sub("^.*(.)/(.).*", "\\1 \\2", x),' ')[[1]]
> y
[1] "C" "T"
>


On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 2:18 PM, karena <dr.jzhou at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have a data.frame as the following:
> var1        var2
> 9G/G09    abd89C/T90
> 10A/T9    32C/C
> 90G/G      A/A
> .             .
> .             .
> .             .
> 10T/C      00G/G90
>
> What I want is to get the letters which are on the left and right of '/'.
> for example, for "9G/G09", I only want "G", "G", and for "abd89C/T90", I
> only want "C" and "T", how to get these?
>
> thank you,
>
> karena
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Jim Holtman
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