Thanks, Jorge, for another alternative.

 

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From: Jorge Ivan Velez [mailto:jorgeivanvelez@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 2:21 PM
To: Charles.Annis@statisticalengineering.com
Subject: Re: [R] gsub difficulty

 

 

Dear Charles,

 

Phil Spector answered your original question by using two different
approaches, but here I'm going again :) 

 

x="your.string.is.here"

gsub("[.]"," ",x)

[1] "your string is here"

 

HTH,

 

Jorge

 

 

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Jorge Ivan Velez <jorgeivanvelez@gmail.com>
wrote:

 

Deat Charles,

 

Is this what you want?

 

x=".xls"

sub(".","",x)

[1] "xls"

 

HTH,

 

Jorge





On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 1:16 PM, Charles Annis, P.E.
<Charles.Annis@statisticalengineering.com> wrote:

Greetings R-ians:

I know what doesn't work but I don't know why, nor how to remedy things.

I have a character string containing "." which I want to replace with " "

gsub(".", " ", file.label) replaces the every character with a blank.

However gsub(".xls", " ", file.label) replaces ".xls" with a blank as
expected.

It appears that "." is some kind of wild-card.  How do I tell gsub that a
period is just a period?

Thanks.


Charles Annis, P.E.

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