I just figured this out, which seems to be a simple question. I just used gsub("_temp.csv","","StationName1_temp.csv").
> Hi R users, > > I don't know how to extract certain words in strings. For example, if I > have strings like the formats "StationName1_temp.csv", > "StationName2_temp.csv", etc. How to get strings like these "StationName1", > "StationName2", etc? That is to say, I want to exclude the keywords > "_temp.csv", but I could not find a clue online. Thanks for your 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.