And my \\3 should have been a \\2 anyway ! On 9 August 2010 12:23, Michael Bedward <michael.bedw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Was going to suggest gsub("^[0-9]+ (SPE )?([^ -])( -.*)?", "\\3", s) > but I see Wu Gong beat me to the punch with a nicer one :) > > On 9 August 2010 12:13, Wu Gong <w...@mtmail.mtsu.edu> wrote: >> >> gsub(pattern = "^[0-9]+ (SPE )*(\\w+) - .*$", "\\2", dat) >> >
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