Good morning Steve. Terrific, so kind of you to follow-up.
I will add that to my ever growing R bag of tips and tricks.
Cheers.
WHP
William H. Poling, Ph.D., MPH | Manager, Revenue Development
Data Intelligence & Analytics
Zelis Healthcare
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From: S Ellison <s.elli...@lgcgroup.com>
Sent: Monday, March 18, 2019 8:32 AM
To: Bill Poling <bill.pol...@zelis.com>; r-help (r-help@r-project.org)
<r-help@r-project.org>
Subject: RE: Help with gsub function
> tb2a$TID2 <- gsub(tb2a$TID, pattern="-[0-0]{0,7}", replacement = "")
Just to add something on why this didn't work ...
It looks like you were trying to match a hyphen followed by a number up to
seven digits. by mistake(?) you gave the digit range as [0-0] so it would
repmatch a hyphen followed by between none and seven zeroes. When it met "-0"
it matched that.
And because it was gsub, it replaced what it matched.
If you'd given it the right digit range it would have replaced the whole of the
number.
If you _really_ wanted to do that kind of thing (control the following
pattern), you'd have needed something like (untested) gsub("-([0-0]{0,7})",
"\\1", tb2a$TID)
#The () means 'remember this bit"; the "\\1" means "put the first thing you
remember here". And it needs to be "\\1" because that becomes "\1" for the grep
parser.
Steve E
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