Hi all, I am trying to capture lines of a file that DO NOT start with the following header: !, #, ^
But somehow my regex used under grep doesn't work. Please advice what's wrong with my code below. __BEGIN__ in_fname <- paste("mydata.txt,".soft",sep="") data_for_R <- paste("data_for_R/", args[3], ".softR", sep="") # my regex construction cat(temp[-grep("^[\^\!\#]",temp,perl=TRUE)], file=data_for_R, sep="\n") dat <- read.table(data_for_R) ___END__ - Gundala Viswanath Jakarta - Indonesia ______________________________________________ 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.