Re: [R] Deleting a variable number of characters from a string

On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Davis, Brian wrote: > I have a text processing problem I'm hoping someone can help me solve.  This > issue it this. > >  I have a character string in which I need to delete a variable number of > characters from the string.  The string itself contains the number

Re: [R] Deleting a variable number of characters from a string

Hi Davis, Please try ??regex gsub("(\\-|\\+)([0-9]+)(\\w*)(\\w)", replacement="\\4", x) - A R learner. -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Deleting-a-variable-number-of-characters-from-a-string-tp2291754p2291797.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at

[R] Deleting a variable number of characters from a string

I have a text processing problem I'm hoping someone can help me solve. This issue it this. I have a character string in which I need to delete a variable number of characters from the string. The string itself contains the number of characters to be deleted. The number of characters to be d