On 09.04.2008, at 17:46, Shubha Vishwanath Karanth wrote:
> To put it simple,
>
> C=c("My Dog", "Its really good", "Beautiful")
>
> Now,
> SOMEFUNCTION(C) should give: c("My", "Its really", "")
SOMEFUNCTION <- function(x) gsub(" *\\w+$", "", x)
But be aware that this won't work for instance for combining diacritics.
If you have this:
C <- c("My Dog", "Its really good", "Beautiful", "Tuli faŝda")
in fasda above the s is a combining circumfix ^
would give
[1] "My" "Its really" "" "Tuli faŝ"
Then one should use the strsplit approach.
Cheers,
--Hans
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