> test <- c("pH 9,36 2", "pH 9,36 3", "pH 9,66 1", "pH 9,66 2", "pH 9,66 3", + "pH 10,04 1", "pH 10,04 2", "pH 10,04 3", "RGLP 144006 pH 6,13 1", + "RGLP 144006 pH 6,13 2", "RGLP 144006 pH 6,13 3") > > # make it less greedy with a "?" > gsub("^.*?([[:digit:]]+,[[:digit:]]*).*$", "\\1", test) [1] "9,36" "9,36" "9,66" "9,66" "9,66" "10,04" "10,04" "10,04" "6,13" "6,13" "6,13" >
On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 8:05 AM, arun <smartpink...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi, > May be this helps: > > gsub(".*\\w+\\s+(.*)\\s+.*","\\1",test) > #[1] "9,36" "9,36" "9,66" "9,66" "9,66" "10,04" "10,04" "10,04" > "6,13" > #[10] "6,13" "6,13" > > A.K. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: PIKAL Petr <petr.pi...@precheza.cz> > To: r-help <r-help@r-project.org> > Cc: > Sent: Tuesday, July 9, 2013 5:45 AM > Subject: [R] regular expression strikes again > > Dear experts in regexpr. > > I have this > > dput(test[500:510]) > c("pH 9,36 2", "pH 9,36 3", "pH 9,66 1", "pH 9,66 2", "pH 9,66 3", > "pH 10,04 1", "pH 10,04 2", "pH 10,04 3", "RGLP 144006 pH 6,13 1", > "RGLP 144006 pH 6,13 2", "RGLP 144006 pH 6,13 3") > > and I want something like this > > gsub("^.*([[:digit:]],[[:digit:]]*).*$", "\\1", test[500:510]) > [1] "9,36" "9,36" "9,66" "9,66" "9,66" "0,04" "0,04" "0,04" "6,13" "6,13" > [11] "6,13" > > but with 10,04 values instead of 0,04. > > I tried > gsub("^.*([[:digit:]]+,[[:digit:]]*).*$", "\\1", test[500:510]) > > or other variations but without any success. > > Please help. > > Regards > Petr > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- Jim Holtman Data Munger Guru What is the problem that you are trying to solve? Tell me what you want to do, not how you want to do it. [[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.