Hello, Try the following.
1) pattern <- "response." m <- regexpr(pattern, ex) #gregexpr to get all "response" regmatches(ex, m) 2) gsub("\\$", "\\.", ex) Hope this helps, Rui Barradas Em 16-09-2012 15:35, Özgür Asar escreveu:
Dear all, I want to manipulate a character string such as ex<-"cbind(data$response1,data$response2)" in R in two ways: 1) extracting the "response1" portion of ex 2) replacing "$" with "." I am wondering that is it possible efficiently doing these in R? Best Ozgur -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/two-questions-about-character-manipulation-tp4643292.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.
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