Thank you, Jim. It's close but not all the way. The desired result is: > [[1]] > [1] "a1" "2.5" > > [[2]] > [1] "a2" "2.53" > > [[3]] > [1] "a3_bla" "1"
Dimitri On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 12:35 PM, jim holtman <[email protected]> wrote: > try this: > >> x<-c("name_a1_2.5.o","name_a2_2.53.o","name_a3_bla_1.o") >> strsplit(sub(".*?([^_]+)_([^-]+).o$", "\\1 \\2", x), ' ') > [[1]] > [1] "a1" "2.5" > > [[2]] > [1] "a2" "2.53" > > [[3]] > [1] "bla" "1" > >> > > > On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Dimitri Liakhovitski > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hello! >> Hope you could help me split the strings. >> >> I have a set of strings: >> >> x<-c("name_a1_2.5.o","name_a2_2.53.o","name_a3_bla_1.o") >> >> I need to extract from each string: >> >> 1. Its unique part that comes before the last "_", i.e.: "a1","a2","a3_bla". >> 2. The part that comes after the last "_" and before ".o" at the end, >> i.e.: 2.5, 2.53, 1. >> >> Thank you so much for your help! >> >> -- >> Dimitri Liakhovitski >> marketfusionanalytics.com >> >> ______________________________________________ >> [email protected] 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. >> > > > > -- > Jim Holtman > Data Munger Guru > > What is the problem that you are trying to solve? > -- Dimitri Liakhovitski marketfusionanalytics.com ______________________________________________ [email protected] 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.
