Dear Jeffrey,

Your syntax looks very extraordinary to me. I would be very happy if you can
explain this notation.

Regards,

On 9/18/07, Jeffrey Robert Spies <jspies@nd.edu> wrote:
>
> And one using regular expressions:
>
> x <- "2005-09-01"
> pattern <- '([[:digit:]]{4})-([[:digit:]]{2})-([[:digit:]]{2})'
> y <- sub(pattern, '\\1', x)
> m <- sub(pattern, '\\2', x)
> d <- sub(pattern, '\\3', x)
>
> -- Jeff.
>
> On Sep 18, 2007, at 5:00 AM, Arun Kumar Saha wrote:
>
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I have a variable 'x' like that:
> >
> >> x
> > [1] "2005-09-01"
> >
> > Here, 2005 represents year, 09 month and 01 day.
> >
> > Now I want to create three variables naming: y, m, and d such that:
> >
> > y = 2005
> > m = 09
> > d = 01
> >
> > can anyone tell me how to do that?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
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