I would assume that you have lines of text that do not include 'CIK='
and therefore the 'sub' fails and you get the original string. If
you only want the lines with "CIK", then use 'grepl' to just extract
those lines before processing.
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 10:14 PM, Sparks, John James wrote:
jim holtman
> Cc: r-help@r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R] Find String Between Characters
>
> Hi Jim,
>
> Thanks for your note.
>
> Unfortunately, when I attempt your solution in my exact
> setting, I get a
> weird and slightly different answer.
>
> First, let
Hi Jim,
Thanks for your note.
Unfortunately, when I attempt your solution in my exact setting, I get a
weird and slightly different answer.
First, let me be more clear. What I am attempting to do is pull the CIK
number out of the information from the web page itself after it has loaded
to R (th
Is this what you want:
> mmm<-"http://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=320193&owner=exclude&count=40";
> num <- sub("^.*CIK=([0-9]+).*", "\\1", mmm)
> num
[1] "320193"
>
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 8:20 PM, Sparks, John James wrote:
> Dear R Helpers,
>
> I am trying to
Dear R Helpers,
I am trying to isolate a set of characters between two other characters in
a long string file. I tried some of the examples on the R help pages and
elsewhere, but I am not able to get it. Your help would be much
appreciated.
require(scrapeR)
mmm<-scrape(url="http://www.sec.gov/c
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