What is the simplest way to extract a matched subexpression? Eg. in perl you can do
"hello world" =~ m/hello (.*)/ which would return 1(true) and set $1 to the matched subexpression "world". -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/regular-expression-submatch-tp1459146p1459146.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.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.