You can always use regular expressions: > x <- "Condition: 311" > as.integer(sub(".*?(\\d <file://d/>+).*", "\\1 <file://0.0.0.1/>", x, perl=TRUE)) [1] 311 >
On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Matthias Gondan <matthias-gon...@gmx.de>wrote: > Dear list, > > Apparently, there is no function like sscanf in R. > > I have a string, "Condition: 311", and I would like > to read out the number and store it to a numeric > variable. Is there an easy way to do this? > > Best wishes, > > Matthias > -- > > ______________________________________________ > 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<http://www.r-project.org/posting-guide.html> > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- Jim Holtman Cincinnati, OH +1 513 646 9390 What is the problem that you are trying to solve? [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.