gsub("\\,.*","",x)
#[1] "foo" "bar" "qux"
A.K.----- Original Message ----- From: Gundala Viswanath <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Cc: Sent: Monday, April 1, 2013 10:13 PM Subject: [R] How to remove all characters after comma in R I have the following list of strings: x <- c("foo, foo2, foo3", "bar", "qux, qux1") what I want to do is to obtain foo, bar qux Namely for each element in the vector obtain only string before the first comma. What's the way to do it? - G.V. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ [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. ______________________________________________ [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.
