Thanks Henrique. This is indeed short and quite simple compared to what I was using which goes like...
unlist(strsplit(i,split=" "))[grep("ENSP",unlist(strsplit(i,split=" ")))] J Cheers, Praveen. From: Henrique Dallazuanna [mailto:www...@gmail.com] Sent: 08 July 2009 14:18 To: praveen.surend...@ucd.ie Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] R regular expression to extract words with the query string. Try this: sapply(strsplit(i, ' '), grep, pattern='ENSP', value = T) On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Praveen Surendran <praveen.surend...@ucd.ie> wrote: Hi, Is there a way in R to get the string which matches the expression, where the expression is a substring of the parent string. Lets say, I have $i <- "transcript:ENST0000112334 pid:ENSP000012345" What I need is the string "pid:ENSP000012345" from $i using the query "ENSP". Appreciate your comments. Praveen Surendran School of Medicine and Medical Sciences University College Dublin Belfiled, Dublin 4 Ireland. [[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. -- Henrique Dallazuanna Curitiba-Paraná-Brasil 25° 25' 40" S 49° 16' 22" O [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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