Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Wacek Kusnierczyk
>
>
>> right; there's a straightforward fix to my solution that accounts for
>> cases such as '.bashrc':
>>
>> names = c("foo.bar", ".zee")
>> sub("(.+)[.][^.]+$", "\\1", names)
>>
>> you could also use a lookbehind if possible (not in r, afaik).
>>
>>
>
> or:
>
>
>> sub(".*[.]", ".", names)
>>
> [1] ".bar" ".zee"
>
it was "foo" that was desired...
vQ
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