[R] replacing text

[Marc Schwartz]

>> Position and number of dots vary, and not follow specific pattern. 
>> I wish to replace all the dots by "_" in vect, so that it 
>> looks like 
>> "a_bcd_ef","gh_i", etc.. 

>Try: 
>gsub("\\.","_",vect) 

>> vect 
>[1] "a.bcd.ef" "gh.i" "foo.blah" "test.another" 
>> gsub("\\.","_",vect) 
>[1] "a_bcd_ef" "gh_i" "foo_blah" "test_another" 
>> 

>Is this what you were looking for? 

>-Jeff 

Be Careful!  The "_" character is an assignment operator!

gh_i 

is the same as 

gh <- i

or the same as 

gh = i

HTH.

Marc


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