On 9 Apr 2008, at 17:44, Shubha Vishwanath Karanth wrote: > Got all the answers using ?strsplit... Is there any way without > using string split?... More specifically... How can I just extract > the last word in all the strings without using ?strsplit ?
Oops, sorry. gsub(" *\w+$", "", C) should work. --Hans ______________________________________________ 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.