Dear all, regmatches works.
And, since this has been asked here before: SignifStellen<-function(x){ strx=as.character(x) nchar(regmatches(strx, regexpr("[1-9][0-9]*\\.[0-9]*[1-9]",strx)))-1 } returns the significant figures of a number. Perhaps this can help someone. Thanks & best regards H. van Lishaut ______________________________________________ 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.