Thanks so much Arun! It's the second case. 
Being able to extract is really powerful too. Thank you for sharing that as well!

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On Nov 4, 2012, at 12:00 AM, "arun kirshna [via R]" <ml-node+s789695n4648372h32@n4.nabble.com> wrote:

> HI, 
> 
> I am not sure how you want your output. 
> Is it something like: 
> "WEBSITEWEBSITEWEBSITE" 
> #or 
> just "WEBSITE" replacing the whole url 
> 
> I guess it is the former. 
>  url1<-"http:\\XXX.com" 
> gsub(".*","WEBSITEWEBSITEWEBSITE",url1) 
> #[1] "WEBSITEWEBSITEWEBSITE" 
> #2nd case 
> gsub(".*","WEBSITE",url1) 
> #[1] "WEBSITE" 
> 
> But, if you wanted to extract the 1st (http), 2nd (XXX), and 3rd (com) components: 
> gsub("\\\\","",gsub("(.*)\\:(.*)\\.(.*)","\\1 \\2 \\3",url1)) 
> #[1] "http XXX com" 
> #or 
>  gsub("(.*)\\:\\\\(.*)\\.(.*)","\\1 \\2 \\3",url1) 
> #[1] "http XXX com" 
> #just the first component 
>  gsub("(.*)\\:.*","\\1",url1) 
> #[1] "http" 
> #second alone 
> gsub(".*\\:\\\\(.*)\\..*","\\1",url1) 
> #[1] "XXX" 
> A.K. 
> 
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