Try:
gsub(".$", "", c('01asap05a', '02ee04b'))
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 10:47 AM, glaporta 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
Sure. You can use nchar() to find out how long the string is.
> teststring <- "01asap05a"
> substr(teststring, 1, nchar(teststring)-1)
[1] "01asap05"
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 9:47 AM, glaporta wrote:
>
> Dear R experts,
> is there a simple way to remove the last char of a text string?
> substr()
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 3:47 PM, glaporta 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,
> G
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
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