Hello,

Try the following.

string <- "\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"compliment-count profile\">11</span>"
gsub("[^[:digit:]]", "", string)

Then use as.numeric or as.integer.

Hope this helps,

Rui Barradas

Em 31-07-2012 01:19, Shelby McIntyre escreveu:
Below is the string to parse and return the embedded number = "11"

string = "\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"compliment-count profile\">11</span>"






On Jul 29, 2012, at 3:00 AM, r-help-requ...@r-project.org wrote:

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