You are too good :)
Thanks a lot have a nice weekend
B.R
Alex
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From: jim holtman <jholt...@gmail.com>
Cc: "R-help@r-project.org" <R-help@r-project.org>
Sent: Friday, December 2, 2011 1:51 PM
Subject: Re: [R] find and replace string
try this:
> x <- c('sta_+1+0_field2ndtry_0000$01.cfg'
+ , 'sta_+1+0_field2ndtry_0000$01.cfg'
+ , 'sta_+1-0_field2ndtry_0000$01.cfg'
+ , 'sta_+1+0_field2ndtry_0000$01.cfg'
+ )
> # find matching fields
> values <- grep("[^+]*\\+[^+]*\\+0", x, value = TRUE)
> # split into two pieces
> splitValues <- sub("([^+]*\\+[^+]*\\+)0(.*)", "\\1^\\2", values)
> for (i in splitValues){
+ for (j in 0:3){
+ print(sub("\\^", j, i))
+ }
+ }
[1] "sta_+1+0_field2ndtry_0000$01.cfg"
[1] "sta_+1+1_field2ndtry_0000$01.cfg"
[1] "sta_+1+2_field2ndtry_0000$01.cfg"
[1] "sta_+1+3_field2ndtry_0000$01.cfg"
[1] "sta_+1+0_field2ndtry_0000$01.cfg"
[1] "sta_+1+1_field2ndtry_0000$01.cfg"
[1] "sta_+1+2_field2ndtry_0000$01.cfg"
[1] "sta_+1+3_field2ndtry_0000$01.cfg"
[1] "sta_+1+0_field2ndtry_0000$01.cfg"
[1] "sta_+1+1_field2ndtry_0000$01.cfg"
[1] "sta_+1+2_field2ndtry_0000$01.cfg"
[1] "sta_+1+3_field2ndtry_0000$01.cfg"
> Dear all,
> I would like to search in a string for the second occurrence of a symbol and
> replace the symbol after it
>
> For example my strings look like
>
> sta_+1+0_field2ndtry_0000$01.cfg
>
> I want to find the digit that comes after the second +, in that case is zero
> and then over a loop create the strings below
>
> sta_+1+0_field2ndtry_0000$01.cfg
>
> sta_+1+1_field2ndtry_0000$01.cfg
>
> sta_+1+2_field2ndtry_0000$01.cfg
>
> sta_+1+3_field2ndtry_0000$01.cfg
>
> and so on..
> I have already tried strsplit but this will make things more complex...
>
> Could you please help me with that?
>
> B.R
> Alex
>
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