On Jul 10, 2013, at 12:02 AM, Gundala Viswanath wrote:
> I have the following list of strings:
>
> name <- c("hsa-miR-555p","hsa-miR-519b-3p","hsa-let-7a")
>
> What I want to do is for each of the above strings
> replace the text after second delimiter with "zzz".
> Yielding:
>
> hsa-miR-zzz
> hsa-miR-zzz
> hsa-let-zzz
?regex
Look at sections on character classe, repetition quantifiers, and back
references.
> sub("(^[^-]*-[^-]*-)(.*$)", "\\1zzz", name)
[1] "hsa-miR-zzz" "hsa-miR-zzz" "hsa-let-zzz"
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David Winsemius
Alameda, CA, USA
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