Hi,
text <- "[Swidsinski, Alexander; Loening-Baucke, Vera; Lochs, Herbert] Charite
Humboldt Univ, Innere Klin, D-10098 Berlin, Germany; [Hale, Laura P.] Duke
Univ, Med Ctr, Dept Pathol, Durham, NC 27710 USA"
gsub("\\[.+?]","",text)
A.K.
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From: Sabina Arndt <sabina.ar...@hotmail.de>
To: r-help@r-project.org
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Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2012 6:08 AM
Subject: [R] How to remove square brackets, etc. from address strings?
Hello,
I'd like to remove the individual pairs of square brackets along with
their content - plus the space directly behind it - from address strings
such as this:
[Swidsinski, Alexander; Loening-Baucke, Vera; Lochs, Herbert] Charite
Humboldt Univ, Innere Klin, D-10098 Berlin, Germany; [Hale, Laura P.]
Duke Univ, Med Ctr, Dept Pathol, Durham, NC 27710 USA
I'd like get the following result:
Charite Humboldt Univ, Innere Klin, D-10098 Berlin, Germany; Duke Univ, Med
Ctr, Dept Pathol, Durham, NC 27710 USA
I tried
address = gsub("(.*)[(.*)]", "\\2", address)
But this deletes everything from the first opening bracket to the last closing
bracket and leaves only the very last address:
Duke Univ, Med Ctr, Dept Pathol, Durham, NC 27710 USA
How can I remove only the individual pairs of square brackets along with their
content?
Thank you very much in advance!
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