[R] Regex to remove last character

[David Winsemius]

On Jan 3, 2011, at 2:24 PM, rivercode wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> Have been having trouble trying to figure out the right regex  
> parameters to
> remove the last "." in timestamp with the following format:
>
> Convert 09:30:00.377.853 to  09:30:00.377853

gsub("()(\\.)(.{3}$)", "\\1\\3" , "09:30:00.377.853")
[1] "09:30:00.377853"

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David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT