See ?substr and ?nchar
Try:
substr("Hello World", 0, nchar("Hello World")-2)Regards Markus Gesmann FPMA Lloyd's Market Analysis Lloyd's * One Lime Street * London * EC3M 7HA Telephone +44 (0)20 7327 6472 Facsimile +44 (0)20 7327 5718 http://www.lloyds.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wade Wall Sent: 24 July 2006 14:42 To: [email protected] Subject: [R] trim function in R Hi all, I am looking for a function in R to trim the last two characters of an 8 character string in a vector. For example, I have the codes 37-079-2, 370079-3,37-079-8 and want to trim them to 37-079 by removing the last two characters. Is sub the correct function to use, and if so how can I specify trimming the last 2 characters? I have read the help file, but can't quite figure out how to do it. Thanks, Wade ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list 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. ********************************************************************** The information in this E-Mail and in any attachments is CON...{{dropped}} ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list 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.
