On 13-03-2012, at 10:42, Igor Sosa Mayor wrote:
> Hi R-Users,
>
> I want to manipulate some strings in the following way. I have the
> following vector with spanish municipalities:
>
> municipios<-c("Allande", "Aller", "Amieva", "Avilés", "Belmonte de
> Miranda",
> "Degaña", "Franco (El)", "Gijón", "Gozón", "Grado", "Grandas de Salime",
> "Quirós", "Regueras (Las)", "Ribadedeva", "Ribadesella", "Ribera de
> Arriba")
>
> The problem is: some names have an article ("Franco (El)", "Regueras
> (Las)"). Others don't. I want to do the following conversion:
>
> "Regueras (Las)"---> "Las Regueras"
>
> That is: I want to loop through the names, look whether they have a
> postponed article, extract and delete this article and put it in front
> of the rest of the name.
>
> Any hints? Thanks in advance.
gsub("([^\\s]+)\\s*(\\()(.*)(\\))","\\3 \\1", municipios, perl=TRUE)
Berend
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