[R] Help with gsub function

Ivan Krylov kry|ov@r00t @end|ng |rom gm@||@com
Fri Mar 15 20:49:02 CET 2019


On Fri, 15 Mar 2019 19:45:27 +0000
Bill Poling <Bill.Poling using zelis.com> wrote:

Hello Bill,

> tb2a$TID2 <- gsub(tb2a$TID, pattern="-[0-0]{0,7}", replacement = "")

Is the pattern supposed to mean something besides the "-" you want to
remove? For the problem you describe, pattern="-" should be enough. It
should locate all hyphens in the string and replace them with empty
strings, i.e. remove them.

-- 
Best regards,
Ivan



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