[R] How to specify multiple regular expressions for pattern argument
Berend Hasselman
bhh at xs4all.nl
Fri May 11 20:34:38 CEST 2012
On 11-05-2012, at 20:18, Jun Shen wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> I want to show all the objects starting with "d" and ending with a digit.
> How do I specify these conditions in the pattern argument
>
> I can do one condition but not two
>
> ls(pattern='^d')
> ls(pattern='[[:digit:]]$')
>
> are working.
>
> But,
>
> ls(pattern='^d'&'[[:digit:]]$') is not working.
'^d.*[[:digit:]]$'
starting with a 'd', followed by zero or more of anything and ending with a digit.
Berend
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