actually, I am thinking of strsplit().
On 3/9/07, Shawn Way <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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?
>
> Shawn Way
>
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