> test <- "xyz"
> nchar(test)
[1] 3
> n <- nchar(test)
> n <- n-1
> substr(test,1,n)
[1] "xy"

Kjetil Halvorsen

Luis Rideau Cruz wrote:

R-help,

Any function to remove last element (or any specific elemnet in the sequence) from a 
character string?

t<-c("aaab","qqqc")



function(t) ### remove last character (b and c respectively)





aaa qqq



Thanks

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