Dear List, I have an ascii text file with data I'd like to extract. Example:
Year Built: 1873 Gross Building Area: 578 sq ft Total Rooms: 6 Living Area: 578 sq ft There is a lot of data I'd like to ignore in each record, so I'm hoping there is a way to use strings as delimiters to get the data I want (e.g. tell R to take data between "Built:" and "Gross" - incidentally, not always numeric). I think an ugly way would be to start at the end of each record and use a substitution expression to chip away at it, but I'm afraid it will take forever to run. Is there a way to use strings as delimiters in an expression? Thanks in advance for ideas. LB ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
