On 31.07.2014 04:46, carol white wrote:
There are some level of variation either chars followed by numbers or chars, numbers, chars Perhaps, I should use gsub as you suggested all and if the string is composed of chars followed by numbers, it will return the 3rd part empty?
Please read about regularvexpressions and describe your problem accurately. If the last strings are onot always present, use * rather than + at the very end of the regular expression.
Best, Uwe Ligges
Regards, Carol On Wednesday, July 30, 2014 10:52 PM, Marc Schwartz <[email protected]> wrote: On Jul 30, 2014, at 3:13 PM, carol white <[email protected]> wrote:Hi, If I have a string of consecutive chars followed by consecutive numbers and then chars, like "absdfds0213451ab", how to separate the consecutive chars from consecutive numbers? grep doesn't seem to be helpful grep("[a-z]","absdfds0213451ab", ignore.case=T) [1] 1 grep("[0-9]","absdfds0213451ab", ignore.case=T) [1] 1 Thanks Carolgrep() will only tell you that a pattern is present. You want to use gsub() or similar with back references to return parts of the vector. Will they ALWAYS appear in that pattern (letters, numbers, letters) or is there some level of variation? If they will always appear as in your example, then one approach is:strsplit(gsub("([a-z]+)([0-9]+)([a-z]+)", "\\1 \\2 \\3", "absdfds0213451ab"), " ")[[1]] [1] "absdfds" "0213451" "ab" The initial gsub() returns the 3 parts separated by a space, which is then used as the split argument to strsplit(). If there will be some variation, you can use multiple calls to gsub() or similar, each getting either the letters or the numbers. Regards, Marc Schwartz [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ [email protected] 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.
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