[R] phone number extraction

[R. Michael Weylandt]

What is a "verbatim"?

This came up three days ago on this very list:
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2012-April/310815.html

The short answer is that you need this regex: pat <- "[-0-9]{10,12}"

Michael

On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 1:23 AM, antony <antonyishere at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How can I extract the phone numbers( consecutive 10 digits or in a pattern
> like 3digits-3digits-4digits) from a verbatim?
> Thanks in advance for any help...
>
> Antony
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