Dear ALl, I hope you could help me out on this simple problem. I have many thousand lines like this: NM_019397 // Egfl6 // EGF-like-domain, multiple 6 // X F5|X 71.5 cM // 54156
I want to extract the string inside the first // //, in this case is Egf16. How do I apply grep function? Thanks. Stephen HK Wong Stephen HK Wong Research Associate,Cleary Lab Lab Phone: 650-723-5340 MC 5457 Lokey Stem Cell Research Building 265 Campus Drive, Rm. G2035 Stanford, California 94305-5324 ______________________________________________ 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.