Hi, 
 
I'm looking to use the grep function (or something else) to return the matched 
pattern as opposed to the whole element. For example:
 
x <- c("pjhj24jhjhd")
grep("[[:digit:]]{2}", x, value=T) returns "people", whereas I simply want 
"24".  
 
Any help would be appreciated, 
 
Thanks, Aidan

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