on 09/10/2008 07:07 AM Megh Dal wrote:
> I have following
>
> " 1975 01 7711.16"
>
> Here I need to identify where the <space> is there and then
> concatenate rest of the digits without <space>, i.e. I want to have
> "1975017711.16". Is there any R function?
See ?gsub:
# Strip out blanks
> gsub(" ", "", " 1975 01 7711.16")
[1] "1975017711.16"
# Strip out non-numeric or decimal
> gsub("[^0-9\\.]", "", " 1975 01 7711.16")
[1] "1975017711.16"
HTH,
Marc Schwartz
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