On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 3:47 PM, glaporta <glapo...@freeweb.org> wrote: > > Dear R experts, > is there a simple way to remove the last char of a text string? > substr() function use as parameter start end only... but my strings are of > different length... > 01asap05a -> 01asap05 > 02ee04b -> 02ee04 > Thank you all, > Gianandrea > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/remove-last-char-of-a-text-string-tp2254377p2254377.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >
It's not terribly elegant, but this works: orig.text<-c("01asap05a","02ee04b") substr(orig.text,1,nchar(orig.text)-1) Regards, Gustaf -- Gustaf Rydevik, M.Sci. tel: +46(0)703 051 451 address:Essingetorget 40,112 66 Stockholm, SE skype:gustaf_rydevik ______________________________________________ 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.