You can always use regular expressions:

> x <- "Condition: 311"
> as.integer(sub(".*?(\\d <file://d/>+).*", "\\1 <file://0.0.0.1/>", x,
perl=TRUE))
[1] 311
>


On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Matthias Gondan <matthias-gondan@gmx.de>wrote:

> Dear list,
>
> Apparently, there is no function like sscanf in R.
>
> I have a string, "Condition: 311", and I would like
> to read out the number and store it to a numeric
> variable. Is there an easy way to do this?
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Matthias
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