Re: [R] Replacing part of delimited string with R's regex

Hi You could use:  gsub("([[:alnum:]]+-)([[:alnum:]]+-)(.*)","\\1\\2zzz",name) #[1] "hsa-miR-zzz" "hsa-miR-zzz" "hsa-let-zzz" A.K. - Original Message - From: Gundala Viswanath To: "r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch" Cc: Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2013 3:02 AM Subject: [R] Replacing part of del

Re: [R] Replacing part of delimited string with R's regex

On Jul 10, 2013, at 12:02 AM, Gundala Viswanath wrote: > I have the following list of strings: > > name <- c("hsa-miR-555p","hsa-miR-519b-3p","hsa-let-7a") > > What I want to do is for each of the above strings > replace the text after second delimiter with "zzz". > Yielding: > > hsa-miR-zzz >