Try:

 gsub(".$", "", c('01asap05a', '02ee04b'))

On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 10:47 AM, glaporta <glaporta@freeweb.org> wrote:

>
> Dear R experts,
> is there a simple way to remove the last char of a text string?
> substr() function use as parameter start end only... but my strings are of
> different length...
> 01asap05a -> 01asap05
> 02ee04b -> 02ee04
> Thank you all,
> Gianandrea
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