I think I found a partial answer: str_replace_all(x, "[[:punct:]]", " ")
On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 9:59 AM, Dimitri Liakhovitski <dimitri.liakhovit...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello! > > Please point me in the right direction. > I need to match 2 strings, but focusing ONLY on characters, ignoring > all special characters and punctuation signs, including (), "", etc.. > > For example: > I want the following to return: TRUE > > "What a nice day today! - Story of happiness: Part 2." == > "What a nice day today: Story of happiness (Part 2)" > > > -- > Thank you! > Dimitri Liakhovitski -- Dimitri Liakhovitski ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
