[R] gsub to manipulate characters

Hello, from a vector of strings I want to delete everything after the _ v - c(AAA_BB, FF_MM) gsub(_*, , v) [1] AAABB FFMM but should be [1] AAA FF Why does * not work? Even perl=TRUE does not give me the right result Man thanks! -- View this message in context:

Re: [R] gsub to manipulate characters

On 24-02-2012, at 12:48, syrvn wrote: Hello, from a vector of strings I want to delete everything after the _ v - c(AAA_BB, FF_MM) gsub(_*, , v) [1] AAABB FFMM but should be [1] AAA FF Why does * not work? Even perl=TRUE does not give me the right result gsub(_.*$, , v)

Re: [R] gsub to manipulate characters

cool that works! thanks a lot :) -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/gsub-to-manipulate-characters-tp4416939p4416961.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list