So powerful, the gsub... But I really don’t understand the how the regular expressions like " *\\S+$", need to be used and how to make best use of it... Any article/material/links that I can go through?
BR, Shubha Shubha Karanth | Amba Research Ph +91 80 3980 8031 | Mob +91 94 4886 4510 Bangalore • Colombo • London • New York • San José • Singapore • www.ambaresearch.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charilaos Skiadas Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 3:10 AM To: Hans-Jörg Bibiko Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [R] Number of words in a string On Apr 9, 2008, at 1:27 PM, Hans-Jörg Bibiko wrote: > > On 09.04.2008, at 17:46, Shubha Vishwanath Karanth wrote: >> To put it simple, >> >> C=c("My Dog", "Its really good", "Beautiful") >> >> Now, >> SOMEFUNCTION(C) should give: c("My", "Its really", "") > > SOMEFUNCTION <- function(x) gsub(" *\\w+$", "", 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. How about: SOMEFUNCTION <- function(x) gsub(" *\\S+$", "", x) > Cheers, > > --Hans Haris Skiadas Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Hanover College ______________________________________________ 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. This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient (or have received this e-mail in error) please notify the sender immediately and destroy this e-mail. Any unauthorized copying, disclosure or distribution of the material in this e-mail is strictly forbidden. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Amba Holdings Inc., and/or its affiliates. Important additional terms relating to this email can be obtained at http://www.ambaresearch.com/disclaimer ______________________________________________ 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.
