Hi,

In perl, to get a substring matching a particular  pattern can be
implemented like the following example:

$x = "AAAA.txt";
if ($x=~ /(.*?)\.txt/){
  $prefix = $1;
}

So how to do the same thing in R?

Can someone provide me the code sample?

Thanks much in advance.

-- 
Waverley @ Palo Alto

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