What is a "verbatim"? This came up three days ago on this very list: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2012-April/310815.html
The short answer is that you need this regex: pat <- "[-0-9]{10,12}" Michael On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 1:23 AM, antony <antonyish...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > How can I extract the phone numbers( consecutive 10 digits or in a pattern > like 3digits-3digits-4digits) from a verbatim? > Thanks in advance for any help... > > Antony > > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/phone-number-extraction-tp4591802p4591802.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. ______________________________________________ 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.