Try this:
string <- "Aaaa. bbbb, ccc"
gsub("[^,[:alpha:]|[:space:]]", "", string)
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Rnewbie <xua...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> I wanted to remove all punctuations except commas from a string.
>
> I used:
>
> gsub("[[:punct:]]", "", string)
>
> but I don't know how to exclude the commas ",". Anyone would kindly answer
> my basic question?
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