[R] remove last char of a text string

[Sarah Goslee]

Sure. You can use nchar() to find out how long the string is.

> teststring <- "01asap05a"
> substr(teststring, 1, nchar(teststring)-1)
[1] "01asap05"

On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 9:47 AM, glaporta <glaporta at freeweb.org> wrote:
>
> Dear R experts,
> is there a simple way to remove the last char of a text string?
> substr() function use as parameter start end only... but my strings are of
> different length...
> 01asap05a -> 01asap05
> 02ee04b -> 02ee04
> Thank you all,
> Gianandrea


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