Try:
s1 <- "hello.world"
s2 <- c("GLEm0045", "GLEn0042", "GLEz0048")
substr(s1,1,5)
#or
gsub("\\..*","",s1)
n <- 5
substr(s2,nchar(s2)-n +1,nchar(s2))
A.K.
If I have a column that has "hello.world" how could I extract hello?
In addition in a column how can I extract the last 5 characters? For
example from character G1Em0017 I wish to extract m0017 .
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