[R] read.socket - Strange strings. How to force sub to remove all occurences of a pattern?

I am opening a connection to an apache server sending a get and then I am reading from the socket. All works finde except that I am getting some strange strings disrupting the html e.g. FON\r\nffb\r\nT COLOR ... \r\na48\r\n \r\nffb\r\n They are not frequent ( a few of them) but of course

RE: [R] read.socket - Strange strings. How to force sub to remove all occurences of a pattern?

Hi, here's some classical questions to you; what's your system and what version of R are you using? Could you give a workable code example how you connect to the Apache server? Is the server public so others can test your code? About sub(): you're looking for gsub(). Cheers Henrik Bengtsson

Re: [R] read.socket - Strange strings. How to force sub to remove all occurences of a pattern?

Hallo Douglas, Henrik! Thanks a lot for the help with sub and gsub. Eryk. *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 2/19/2004 at 10:12 AM Douglas Grove wrote: Did you look at the help page for sub?? Read Details: On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, wolski wrote: I am opening a connection to an