Hi,
Try:
a1<- "...verified email at neu.edu<br>Cited by
99853<br></td></tr></table></div></div></div></div><div..."
gsub(".*Cited by\\s+([0-9]+).*","\\1",a1)
#[1] "99853"
A.K.
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From: Thomas <thomas.ches...@nottingham.ac.uk>
To: r-help@r-project.org
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Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 8:14 AM
Subject: [R] Grabbing numbers inside a character string
I have a string that contains something like:
...verified email at neu.edu<br>Cited by 99853<br></td></tr></table></
div></div></div></div><div...
and I'd like to extract the number next to the text "Cited by " - so
it will be whatever numbers are beside "Cited by " until a non-numeric
character is reached.
Can anyone suggest a good way of doing this please?
Thank you,
Thomas
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