[R] Regexp question

Jerome Asselin jerome.asselin.stat at gmail.com
Wed May 4 22:31:29 CEST 2011


On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 22:41 +0300, johannes rara 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?

gsub(",[^,]*FROM ", " FROM ", st)

HTH,
Jerome



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