Re: [R] Get the last 3 chars of a string

On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 07:49 -0700, Thomas Lumley wrote: On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: Here is an alternative: sub(.*(..)$, \\1, x) For sufficiently small values of 3 ;) all.equal(2., 3) [1] TRUE ;-) Marc __

Re: [R] Get the last 3 chars of a string

Looks fine by me. There are lots of other ways of doing it. Does this look any nicer? x - c('asdfghk', 'qwerrey') gsub(.*(...)$, '\\1', x) [1] ghk rey On 10/15/07, Sergio Correia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to extract the last 3 letters of a string. So far, I've done this: symbol

Re: [R] Get the last 3 chars of a string

I was hoping to avoid using regex except when necessary (u know what they say), but I'm beginning to think that's the way things are done in R. Thanks On 10/15/07, jim holtman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looks fine by me. There are lots of other ways of doing it. Does this look any nicer? x