See ?substr and ?nchar
Try:
substr(Hello World, 0, nchar(Hello World)-2)
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A . (dot) matches any character and $ matches the end of string so
this replaces the last two characters with the empty string:
sub(..$, , x)
On 7/24/06, Wade Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
I am looking for a function in R to trim the last two characters of an
8 character string in
