In regular expressions, "$" means the end of the line, so you have
to escape it:

> gsub("\\$|,", "", "$232,685.3567")
[1] "232685.3567"


On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Christofer Bogaso <
bogaso.christofer@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello again,
>
> I want to remove "$" sign and replace with nothing in my text.
> Therefore I used following code:
>
> > gsub("$|,", "", "$232,685.35436")
> [1] "$232685.35436"
>
>
> However I could not remove '$' sign.
>
> Can somebody help me why is it so?
>
> Thanks and regards
>
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