You may have to provide us more detail on **exactly** the sorts of patterns you wish to "capture" -- including exactly what you mean by "capture" (what vaue do you wish to return?) -- as the "obvious" answer is probably not sufficient:
## using your example -- thankyou > gsub(".*(49MU6300|LE32S5970).*","\\1",ecommerce[[2]]) [1] "49MU6300" "LE32S5970" Cheers, Bert Bert Gunter "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and sticking things into it." -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip ) On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 9:18 AM, Omar André Gonzáles Díaz <oma.gonza...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, I need some help with regex. > > I have this to sentences. I need to extract both "49MU6300" and "LE32S5970" > and put them in a new colum "SKU". > > A) SMART TV UHD 49'' CURVO 49MU6300 > B) SMART TV HD 32'' LE32S5970 > > DataFrame for testing: > > ecommerce <- data.frame(a = c(1,2), producto = c("SMART TV UHD 49'' CURVO > 49MU6300", > "SMART TV HD 32'' LE32S5970")) > > > I'm using gsub like this: > > 1.- This would capture A as intended but only "32S5970" from B (missing > "LE"). > > ecommerce$sku <- gsub("(.*)([0-9]{2}[a-zA-Z]{1,2}[0-9]{2,4})(.*)", "\\2", > ecommerce$producto) > > > 2.- This would capture "LE32S5970" but not "49MU6300". > > ecommerce$sku <- > gsub("(.*)([a-zA-Z]{2}[0-9]{2}[a-zA-Z]{1,2}[0-9]{2,4})(.*)", "\\2", > ecommerce$producto) > > > 3.- If I make the 2 first letter optional with: > > ecommerce$sku <- > gsub("(.*)([a-zA-Z]?{2}[0-9]{2}[a-zA-Z]{1,2}[0-9]{2,4})(.*)", "\\2", > ecommerce$producto) > > > "49MU6300" is capture, but again only "32S5970" from B (missing "LE"). > > > What should I do? How would you approche it? > > [[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. ______________________________________________ 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.