On 02.06.2008, at 17:27, Ng Stanley wrote:
I would like to replace "AAAAA BBBBB" by "AAAAA-BBBBB" and "AAAAAA
(DD)" by
"AAAAAA" using a single gsub. Is that possible besides using two
gsub ?
Could you be a bit more precisely?
If you are dealing with two fix strings then you can write
ifelse(theString == "AAAAA BBBBB", "AAAAA-BBBBB", "AAAAAA")
if not, one could find a regexp to solve that problem, but one could
also use gsub in a cascade:
gsub('regexp1', 'replace1', gsub('regexp2', 'replace2', theString) )
etc.
--Hans
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