

Hi everybody,

I'm quite weak with regular expression, and I need some help...
I have strings of the type

>a

[1,] "ppe46 Rv3018c MT3098/MT3101 MTV012.32c"
[2,] "ppe16 Rv1135c MT1168"                  
[3,] "ppe21 Rv1548c MT1599 MTCY48.17"        
[4,] "ppe12 Rv0755c MT0779"                  
[5,] "PE_PGRS51 Rv3367"                      
[etc..for several hundreds]

I want have instead only:

[1,] "Rv3018c"

[2,] "Rv1135c"                  

[3,] "Rv1548c"        

[4,] "Rv0755c"                  

[5,] "Rv3367"                      


Besides these examples, the only thing I know for sure is that the "magic" substrings I want to extract are entire word all starting by "Rv". So "Rvxxxxx", preceded and followed by a space, and of a variable length. I don't have any other infos. 

Do you know how to pick them? I checked for their presence using grep, and "\\<Rv*\\>" expression, I tried with some string functions from Hmisc, or in the other way, by substituting with empty strings everything except the Rv word, but I didn't achieve that much...
Could you please give me some suggestions?

Thanks a lot,


Giulio
 		 	   		  
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