[R] gsub

Jean Eid jeaneid at chass.utoronto.ca
Thu Sep 23 16:03:04 CEST 2004


Hi

A while back I used gsub to do the following

temp<-"000US00231"
gsub("something here", "", temp)
"00231"

I think it involved the `meta characters' somehow.

I do not know how to do this anymore. I know strsplit will also work but I
remember gsub was much faster.  In essence the question is how to delete
all characters before a particular pattern.

If anyone has some help file for this, it will be greatly appreciated.


Jean Eid




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