I am cleaning up comma-limited values, so that only one comma separates each value. Using the example below, as much as I try with regex, I can't remove the last comma. I hope to have a one-liner solution, if possible.
gsub("^,*|,*$|(,)*", "\\1", ",,,apple,,orange,,,,,lemon,strawberry,,,,") [1] "apple,orange,lemon,strawberry," ______________________________________________ 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.