Try this: > folders <- c("folder1", "f2", "F234562", "12345678", "234567", "912345", > "333") > grep("^[0-9]{6}$", folders, value = TRUE) [1] "234567" "912345"
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 10:32 AM, Antje <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, > > I know, this question is not directly an R-help question but probably > someone can give me a hint how to deal with the following problem. > > I have a vector with file/folder names and want to filter for all entries > which have 6 numbers in a row and nothing else. > > folders <- c("folder1", "f2", "F234562", "12345678", "234567", "912345", > "333") > > I'd like to get only "234567" and "912345". > Can anybody help me creating a regex for this??? > > For example this regex: > > regexpr("[^:digit:$]{6}", folders) > > would match "F234562", "12345678", "234567", "912345" > > > Antje > > ______________________________________________ > 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.