[R] matching problem

[Tom.O]

Thanks guys, all of you. You have just made this weekend a much more happier
weekend.

Regards Tom


Hans-Jörg Bibiko wrote:
> 
> 
> On 27 Jun 2008, at 13:56, Tom.O wrote:
> 
>>
>> Well I have tried that and it's unfortuanally not the solution.
>> This return all the characters in the string, but I dont want the  
>> characters
>> after the ending non-character symbol. Only the starting characters  
>> ore of
>> interest.
>>
>>> gsub("\\W*","", myexstrings,perl=T)
>> [1] "AAAAA" "BBBBB" "CCC"   "ddd"
>>
> 
> 
> Oops,
> 
> try this one:
> 
> gsub("^\\W*(\\w+)\\W.*","\\1", myexstrings,perl=T)
> 
> --Hans
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