Re: [R] regexpr with accents

[Luca Meyer]

Thanks Arun,

It works all right, I just found out that my problem was not with accents but 
with the correct spelling of "some text".....

Kind regards,

Luca

Il giorno 06/ago/2012, alle ore 15.01, arun ha scritto:

> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Here, the string with in the quotes are read exactly like that.  So, you may 
> have to use the symbol instead of "friendly" or "numeric" from the link.  Or 
> you have to convert those.
> 
> d1 <- data.frame(V1 = 1:4,
>     V2 = c("some text = 9", "some t&egravext = 9", "some tèxt = 9", "some 
> t&#232xt = 9"))
> 
> d1$V1[regexpr("some t&egravext = 9",d1$V2)>0] <- 9
>  d1$V1[regexpr("some t&#232xt = 9",d1$V2)>0] <- 9
> d1$V1[regexpr("some tèxt = 9",d1$V2)>0] <- 9
> 
> d1
>   V1                  V2
> 1  1       some text = 9
> 2  9 some t&egravext = 9
> 3  9       some tèxt = 9
> 4  9   some t&#232xt = 9
> 
> A.K.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Luca Meyer <lucam1...@gmail.com>
> To: r-help@r-project.org
> Cc: 
> Sent: Monday, August 6, 2012 8:25 AM
> Subject: [R]  regexpr with accents
> 
> Sorry but my previous email did not go through properly. Instead of the ? you 
> should really read an &egrave or &#232 according to 
> http://www.lookuptables.com/.
> 
> So there are extended ASCII characters I need to deal with.
> 
> I have tried
> 
> d1$V1[regexpr("some t&egravext = 9",d1$V2)>0] <- 9
> and 
> 
> d1$V1[regexpr("some t&#232xt = 9",d1$V2)>0] <- 9
> 
> without success...
> 
> Thanks,
> Luca
> 
> 
> 
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