It depends the complexity of your expression. If you are sure you don’t have
nested brackets, and pairs of brackets always match, this will take everything
outside the brackets:
str <- "A1{0}~B0{1} CO{a2}NN{12}”
gsub("\\{[^}]*\\}", " ", str)
Philippe Grosjean
> On 11 Dec 2015, at 14:50, Adrian Dușa <dusa.adr...@unibuc.ro> wrote:
>
> For the regexp aficionados, out there:
>
> I need a regular expression to extract either everything within some
> brackets, or everything outside the brackets, in a string.
>
> This would be the test string:
> "A1{0}~B0{1} CO{a2}NN{12}"
>
> Everything outside the brackets would be:
>
> "A1 ~B0 CO NN"
>
> and everything inside the brackets would be:
>
> "0 1 a2 12"
>
> I have a working solution involving strsplit(), but I wonder if there is a
> more direct way.
> Thanks in advance for any hint,
> Adrian
>
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