it works, but does that mean I really have to specify what to keep rather
than what to remove?
Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
>
> Try something along these lines:
>
> gsub("[^[:alnum:][:space:],]", "", string)
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 8:37 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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