[R] listing the files in a directory using regular expressions

Rui Barradas ruipbarradas at sapo.pt
Sun Oct 14 11:36:58 CEST 2012


Hello,

Try the pattern "A_B.*_C.*\\.csv".

Hope this helps,

Rui Barradas
Em 14-10-2012 08:13, siddu479 escreveu:
> Hi Experts,
>    
>    This might be silly question that I am asking, but no way as I am new to
> R.
> I want to list the files in a directory using regular expression like
> A_B*_C*.csv  etc.
> How to make this possible in R ?
> I tried like this list.files(dir=".", pattern="A_B*_C*.csv") but this gives
> no output, whereas list.files(.... pattern="*.csv") giving all the .csv
> files in the output, which I do not want.
>
> Thanks
> Sidda
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