[R] Splitting on metacharacters

[Boris Steipe]

You haven't actually _defined_ what the expected range of variations of your string are, but if I speculate wildly, I can come up with the following two solutions that may get you started.

s <- '*"{\"Q0\":\"37\",\"Q1\":\"f\"}"*'
regmatches(s, gregexpr("([0-9]{2,}|[a-z]+)", s))[[1]]
strsplit(s, "\\\"")[[1]][c(5, 9)]


Obviously, there are many more possibilities.
B.


> On Mar 28, 2017, at 12:50 PM, Patzelt, Edward <patzelt at g.harvard.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hi R-help,
> 
> I would like to:
> 
> Extract the "26" and "f" from the following string (i.e. age and gender).
> I've tried a bunch of strsplit, grep, etc. Please help!
> 
> *"{\"Q0\":\"37\",\"Q1\":\"f\"}"*
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Edward
> 
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> Psychology | Harvard University
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