[R] Replacing a string

[R. Michael Weylandt]

You want to read the ?regexp page and try

gsub("^http://.*\\.com$", "WEBSITE", <filename>)

Michael

On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 4:09 AM, Allie818 <alice.ly at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have what I hope is a simple text processing question in R.
>
> I want to replace every instance of http:\\XXX.com with "WEBSITE"
>
> When I try
> sub('(^http://)(.com$)', 'WEBSITE', <filename>);,
> it only substitutes http:// and .com so it looks like
> WEBSITEXXXWEBSITE
>
> How do I get it to match the pattern
> "http:// . . . . .com" and substitute the whole phrase?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
>
>
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