Try
gsub('[[:punct:]]', '', str)
-Christos
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Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 11:51 AM
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Subject: [R] remove Punctuation characters
Hi,
I want to remove all punctuation characters in a string. I was trying it use
a regular expressions but it doesn't work.
Here is a sample os what i want:
str <- 'ABD - remove de punct, and dot characters.'
str <- gsub('[:punct:]','',str)
str
"'ABD remove de punct and dot characters"
is there any function that do this kind of thing?
Thanks to all.
Filipe Almeida
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