Thanks, it works like a charm. /Henrik
On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 7:03 AM, Gabor Grothendieck <[email protected]> wrote: > strapply in the gsubfn package matches a regular expression and passes > each back reference as a separate argument to the indicated function, > in this case paste. Any number of back references may be used. Here > is an example where there are more than 9: > >> # pass each back reference in regular expression to function >> # returning function's output >> library(gsubfn) >> strapply("abcdefghijklmnop", "(.)(.)(.)(.)(.)(.)(.)(.)(.)(.)", paste) > [[1]] > [1] "a b c d e f g h i j" > > See home page at: http://gsubfn.googlecode.com > > On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 2:17 AM, Henrik Bengtsson <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm running out of the *numbered* backreferences \\1, \\2, ..., \\9 >> for gsub(). Does R support *named* backreferences, and if so, what is >> the syntax? >> >> Thanks >> >> Henrik >> >> ______________________________________________ >> [email protected] mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >> > ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
