the current code is like this vidx<-grep(paste('^',vars[vi],'$',sep=''),gsub("[[:punct:]]","",strrl1[[datbeg-1]]),ignore.case=T)
where as the old one was vidx<-grep(vars[vi],gsub("[[:punct:]]","",strrl1[[datbeg-1]]),ignore.case=T) -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/grep-tp3004422p3006240.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.