On Jul 9, 2013, at 11:45 , PIKAL Petr wrote: > Dear experts in regexpr. > > I have this > > dput(test[500:510]) > c("pH 9,36 2", "pH 9,36 3", "pH 9,66 1", "pH 9,66 2", "pH 9,66 3", > "pH 10,04 1", "pH 10,04 2", "pH 10,04 3", "RGLP 144006 pH 6,13 1", > "RGLP 144006 pH 6,13 2", "RGLP 144006 pH 6,13 3") > > and I want something like this > > gsub("^.*([[:digit:]],[[:digit:]]*).*$", "\\1", test[500:510]) > [1] "9,36" "9,36" "9,66" "9,66" "9,66" "0,04" "0,04" "0,04" "6,13" "6,13" > [11] "6,13" > > but with 10,04 values instead of 0,04. > > I tried > gsub("^.*([[:digit:]]+,[[:digit:]]*).*$", "\\1", test[500:510]) > > or other variations but without any success. >
Presumably the ^.* is too greedy. Perhaps add a space? I.e., gsub("^.* ([[:di...... -- Peter Dalgaard, Professor Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ 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.