Hi,
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 6:15 AM, SNV Krishna <kris...@primps.com.sg> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have a character vector by name tickers
>
>> head(tickers,10)
>
> V1
> 1 ADARSHPL.BO
> 2 AGR.V
> 3 AGU
> 4 AGU.TO
> 5 AIMCO.BO
> 6 ALUFLUOR.BO
> 7 AMZ.V
> 8 AVD
> 9 ANILPROD.BO
> 10 ARIES.BO
>
> I would like to extract all elements that has ".BO" in it. I tried
>
>> grep("\.BO",tickers)
> Error: '\.' is an unrecognized escape in character string starting "\."
You need instead:
> tickers <- c("A.BO", "BOB", "C.BO")
> grep("\\.BO", tickers)
[1] 1 3
>
> tickers[grep("\\.BO", tickers)]
[1] "A.BO" "C.BO"
>> grep(".BO",tickers)
> [1] 1
That's odd; it should have returned many more matches. You may need to
check the format of your data.
> Could any one please guide me on this. Many thanks for the help
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Krishna
>
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