On 27 Jun 2008, at 13:56, Tom.O wrote:
Well I have tried that and it's unfortuanally not the solution.
This return all the characters in the string, but I dont want the
characters
after the ending non-character symbol. Only the starting characters
ore of
interest.
gsub("\\W*","", myexstrings,perl=T)
[1] "AAAAA" "BBBBB" "CCC" "ddd"
Oops,
try this one:
gsub("^\\W*(\\w+)\\W.*","\\1", myexstrings,perl=T)
--Hans
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