Mark,
Try this:
> myCharVec
[1] "[the rain in spain]" "(the rain in spain)"
> gsub("\\[.*\\]", "", myCharVec)
[1] "" "(the rain in spain)"
You need two backslashes to "escape" the square brackets. The regular
expression "\\[.\\]" translates to "a [ followed by 0 or more instances
of any character followd by ]".
Best regards,
Chuck Taylor
TIBCO Spotfire
Seattle
-----Original Message-----
I want to eliminate all characters that fall within square brackets as
well
as the brackets themselves, returning an "". ...
#what I want
[1] "" "(the rain in spain)"
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