Hi all I am trying t extract a variable from a column ASk/20005-01-45/90
Alldatk/25-17-4567/990 I want to assign a variable to the numbers coming the first"-" x=01 for the first and x=17 for teh second I tried using gsub but did not work x=gsub("-") any help? [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.