Try this: replace(gsub(".*\\((.*)\\)$", "\\1", tests), !grepl("\\(.*\\)", tests), "")
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Bart Joosen <bartjoo...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > this should be an easy one, but I can't figure it out. > I have a vector of tests, with their units between brackets (if they have > units). > eg tests <- c("pH", "Assay (%)", "Impurity A(%)", "content (mg/ml)") > > Now I would like to hava a function where I use a test as input, and which > returns the units > like: > f <- function (x) sub("\\)", "", sub("\\(", "",sub("[[:alnum:]]+","",x))) > this should give "", "%", "%", "mg/ml", but it doesn't do the job quit > well. > > After searching in the manual, and on the help lists, I cant find the > answer. > > anyone? > > Bart > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Regular-expression-to-find-value-between-brackets-tp2994166p2994166.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- Henrique Dallazuanna Curitiba-Paraná-Brasil 25° 25' 40" S 49° 16' 22" O [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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