Hi Petr,

Matt may very well have been right. As I copied the dput from the mail, any
white space is converted to spaces apparently. Still, it might be possible
the white spaces in your original data are tabs or even newline characters.
You can check that easily with

grep("\t", as.character(becva$V1[1]))
grep("\n", as.character(becva$V1[1]))

Cheers
Joris



On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 3:54 PM, Petr PIKAL <petr.pikal@precheza.cz> wrote:

> Hi
>
> thanks. I am puzzled what was wrong. Now even
>
> sub(' +$', '', bbb[1])
>
> works. I am checking water throughput in nearby river and copying data
> from internet. So I wonder if there was some change recently as during
> floods they update it in about 10 minutes interval.
>
> Regards
> Petr
>
>
> jim holtman <jholtman@gmail.com> napsal dne 02.06.2010 15:44:42:
>
> > You had the wrong case on 'w' and the wrong expression with
> > [:space:]';  see below
> >
> > > bbb <- c("02.06.10 12:40   ", "02.06.10 12:00   ", "02.06.10 11:00 ",
> > + "02.06.10 10:00   ", "02.06.10 09:00   ", "02.06.10 08:00   ",
> > + "02.06.10 07:00   ", "02.06.10 06:00   ", "02.06.10 05:00   ",
> > + "02.06.10 04:00   ", "02.06.10 03:00   ", "02.06.10 02:00   ",
> > + "02.06.10 01:00   ", "02.06.10 00:00   ", "01.06.10 23:00   ",
> > + "01.06.10 22:00   ", "01.06.10 21:00   ", "01.06.10 20:00   ",
> > + "01.06.10 19:00   ", "01.06.10 18:00   ", "01.06.10 17:00   ",
> > + "01.06.10 16:00   ", "01.06.10 15:00   ", "01.06.10 14:00   ",
> > + "01.06.10 13:00   ", "01.06.10 05:00   ", "31.05.10 05:00   ",
> > + "30.05.10 05:00   ", "29.05.10 05:00   ", "28.05.10 05:00   ",
> > + "27.05.10 05:00   ")
> > >  sub('\\W+$', '', bbb[1])
> > [1] "02.06.10 12:40"
> > > sub('[[:space:]]+$', '', bbb[1])
> > [1] "02.06.10 12:40"
> > >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Petr PIKAL <petr.pikal@precheza.cz>
> wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > >> dput(bbb)
> > > c("02.06.10 12:40   ", "02.06.10 12:00   ", "02.06.10 11:00   ",
> > > "02.06.10 10:00   ", "02.06.10 09:00   ", "02.06.10 08:00   ",
> > > "02.06.10 07:00   ", "02.06.10 06:00   ", "02.06.10 05:00   ",
> > > "02.06.10 04:00   ", "02.06.10 03:00   ", "02.06.10 02:00   ",
> > > "02.06.10 01:00   ", "02.06.10 00:00   ", "01.06.10 23:00   ",
> > > "01.06.10 22:00   ", "01.06.10 21:00   ", "01.06.10 20:00   ",
> > > "01.06.10 19:00   ", "01.06.10 18:00   ", "01.06.10 17:00   ",
> > > "01.06.10 16:00   ", "01.06.10 15:00   ", "01.06.10 14:00   ",
> > > "01.06.10 13:00   ", "01.06.10 05:00   ", "31.05.10 05:00   ",
> > > "30.05.10 05:00   ", "29.05.10 05:00   ", "28.05.10 05:00   ",
> > > "27.05.10 05:00   ")
> > >>
> > >
> > > For simplicity I change the name and put it to single variable.
> > > I also reinstalled R to recent R-devel
> > >
> > >> sub('\\w+$', '', bbb[1])
> > > [1] "02.06.10 12:40   "
> > >> sub('[:space:]', '', bbb[1])
> > > [1] "02.06.10 1240   "
> > >>
> > >
> > > I also tried Matt's suggestion but it did not help.
> > >
> > > Regards
> > > Petr
> > >
> > > Joris Meys <jorismeys@gmail.com> napsal dne 02.06.2010 14:35:19:
> > >
> > >> Could you provide us with dput(becva$V1[1])?
> > >> Cheers
> > >> Joris
> > >
> > >> On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Petr PIKAL <petr.pikal@precheza.cz>
> > > wrote:
> > >> Dear all
> > >>
> > >> I encountered strange problem with regexpr replacement
> > >>
> > >> I made this character object
> > >>
> > >> str <- "02.06.10 12:40     "
> > >>
> > >> > str(str)
> > >>  chr "02.06.10 12:40      "
> > >>
> > >> I read in an object which seems to be quite similar
> > >>
> > >> > str(as.character(becva$V1)[1])
> > >>  chr "02.06.10 12:40   "
> > >>
> > >> However I can not remove trailing spaces from it
> > >>
> > >> > sub(' +$', '', as.character(becva$V1[1]))
> > >>
> > >> [1] "02.06.10 12:40   "
> > >> > sub(' +$', '', str)
> > >> [1] "02.06.10 12:40"
> > >> >
> > >>
> > >> Do somebody have an idea what to do?
> > >>
> > >> $version.string
> > >> [1] "R version 2.12.0 Under development (unstable) (2010-04-25
> r51820)"
> > >>
> > >> on Windows
> > >>
> > >> Regards
> > >> Petr
> > >>
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> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
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>
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