Is this what you want?

> result <- readLines('/tempxx.txt')
> result
[1] "*NEW RECORD" "*ID-001"     "*AB-text"    ""            "*NEW RECORD"
[6] "*ID-002"     "*AB-text"
> result <- result[grep('^.ID-', result)] # select only ID lines
> result
[1] "*ID-001" "*ID-002"
> sub('^.ID-', '', result)
[1] "001" "002"



On 1/28/06, Andrej Kastrin <andrej.kastrin@siol.net> wrote:
>
> Dear R useRs,
>
> is there any simple, build in function to match specific regular
> expression in data file and write it to a vector. I have the following
> text file:
>
> *NEW RECORD
> *ID-001
> *AB-text
>
> *NEW RECORD
> *ID-002
> *AB-text
> etc.
>
> Now I have to match all ID fields and print them to a vector:
> 001
> 002
> etc.
>
> I know that this is very simple with Perl or R-Perl interface, but if
> possible, I want to do that 'on the hard way'.
>
> Cheers, Andrej
>
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