[R] Problems understanding use of regular expression (in gsub) for manipulating currency

[jim holtman]

Here is another approach:

> x <- "\"$ 1,200,300,400.50\""
>  x
[1] "\"$ 1,200,300,400.50\""
> gsub("[,$ \"]", "", x)
[1] "1200300400.50"
> as.numeric(gsub("[,$ \"]", "", x))
[1] 1200300401
>


On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 4:41 PM, Mauricio Cornejo
<mauriciocornejo at yahoo.com> wrote:
> x <- "\"$ 1,200,300,400.50\""



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Jim Holtman
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