I have a set of character strings like below:
> data3[1]
[1] "CB01_0171_03-27-2002-(Sample 26609)-(126)"
>
I am trying to extract the text 03-27-2002 and convert this into a date
for the same record. I keep looking at the grep function, however I
cannot quite get it to work.
grep("\d\d-\d\d-\d\d\d\d",data3[1],perl=TRUE,value=TRUE)
Any hints?
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