Hello, Try this: string = "\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"compliment-count profile\">11</span>" gsub(".*(11).*","\\1",string) #[1] "11" A.K.
----- Original Message ----- From: Shelby McIntyre <smcint...@scu.edu> To: r-help@r-project.org Cc: Sent: Monday, July 30, 2012 8:19 PM Subject: [R] How can I parse this string to extract just the number 11? 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: > char [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.