Hello, I have several strings where I am trying to eliminate the period and everything after the period, using a regular expression. However, I am having trouble getting this to work.
> x = "wa.w" > gsub(x, "\..*", "", perl=TRUE) [1] "" Warning messages: 1: '\.' is an unrecognized escape in a character string 2: unrecognized escape removed from "\..*" In perl, you can match a single period with \. Is this not so even with perl=TRUE. I would like for x to be equal to > x = "wa" What am I missing here? -stephen ========================================== Stephen J. Barr University of Washington WEB: www.econsteve.com ______________________________________________ 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.
