[R] Regexp question

Henrique Dallazuanna wwwhsd at gmail.com
Wed May 4 22:00:49 CEST 2011


Try this:

gsub(",\\s+FROM", " FROM", st)

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 4:41 PM, johannes rara <johannesraja at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a string like this
>
> st <- "SELECT COUNT(empid), COUNT(mgrid), COUNT(empname),
> COUNT(salary), FROM Employees"
>
> How can I remove the last comma before the FROM statement?
>
> -J
>
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