By the way, although a regular expression solutions was asked for if one expands that to any solution then R does have a function specifically for this case:
> basename(stock) [1] "BLC.NYSE" On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 9:23 PM, Gabor Grothendieck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Try this: > >> sub(".*/", "", stock) > [1] "BLC.NYSE" > > On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 8:29 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> If I have the string below. does someone know a regular expression to just >> get the "BLC.NYSE". I bought the O'Reilley >> book and read it when I can and I study the solutions on the list but I'm >> still not self sufficient with these things. Thanks. >> >> >> stock<-"/opt/limsrv/mark/research/equity/projects/testDL/stock_data/fhdb/US/BLC.NYSE" >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >> 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 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.