Thanks guys, all of you. You have just made this weekend a much more happier
weekend.
Regards Tom
Hans-Jörg Bibiko wrote:
>
>
> On 27 Jun 2008, at 13:56, Tom.O wrote:
>
>>
>> Well I have tried that and it's unfortuanally not the solution.
>> This return all the characters in the string, but I dont want the
>> characters
>> after the ending non-character symbol. Only the starting characters
>> ore of
>> interest.
>>
>>> gsub("\\W*","", myexstrings,perl=T)
>> [1] "AAAAA" "BBBBB" "CCC" "ddd"
>>
>
>
> Oops,
>
> try this one:
>
> gsub("^\\W*(\\w+)\\W.*","\\1", myexstrings,perl=T)
>
> --Hans
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