Hi,
If you just want to remove the $, it must be escaped because $ is a
special character in regular expressions.
> gsub("\\$", "", "$232,685.35436")
[1] "232,685.35436"
But it looks like you actually want to remove both $ and ,
Modifying your code:
> gsub("\\$|,", "", "$232,685.35436")
[1] "232685.35436"
Or my preferred idiom:
> gsub("[$,]", "", "$232,685.35436")
[1] "232685.35436"
Sarah
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Christofer Bogaso
<bogaso.christo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello again,
>
> I want to remove "$" sign and replace with nothing in my text.
> Therefore I used following code:
>
>> gsub("$|,", "", "$232,685.35436")
> [1] "$232685.35436"
>
>
> However I could not remove '$' sign.
>
> Can somebody help me why is it so?
>
> Thanks and regards
>
--
Sarah Goslee
http://www.functionaldiversity.org
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