Then use strsplit() instead. KeithC. -----Original Message----- From: kayj [mailto:kjaj...@yahoo.com] Sent: Friday, February 26, 2010 1:02 PM To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] using grep
Hi , I have tried gsub(".*York(\\d+).*", "\\1", grep("New York", x, value = TRUE)) and outputs "P New York722AZ" "K New York20" but that is not what i want, I want the output to be 722,20 -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/using-grep-tp1571102p1571251.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.