Berend:
1. 1000 thanks for your help. It works perfectly
2. many thanks for the analysis of the expression; i will try to
understand it. Perl is really not easy to read
thanks again!
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 11:51:49AM +0100, Berend Hasselman wrote:
>
> On 13-03-2012, at 11:28, Igor Sosa Mayor wrote:
>
> > many thanks, Berend.
> >
> > It works well... but with a problem because i was not completely clear
> > in my first email.
> >
> > It works with cases such as:
> > Franco (El)
> > Regueras (Las)
> >
> > but not with other cases such as:
> > Fauces de San Andrés (Las)
> >
> > any hints? or meaybe if it is very complicated, any short explanation of
> > the perl expression you wrote (as far as I can understand, the point is
> > this \\3 \\1...).
>
>
> Try this
>
> gsub("([^\\(]+)(\\()(.*)(\\))","\\3 \\1", municipios, perl=TRUE)
>
> ([^\\(]+) look for a sequence of characters not (, this becomes the \1
>
> (\\() match (
>
> (.*) match zero or more anything, this becomes \3
>
> (\\)) match closing )
>
> All subexpressions surrounded by () for backreferencing in replacement
> expression to work.
>
> The result of the above expression will contain trailing blanks if there was
> a (El) etc.
> You can get rid of those by using gsub("\\s+$","",x)
>
> I'm in a bit of a hurry now, so I won't be able to answer further questions
> for several hours.
>
> Berend
>
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