On 02-Mar-2014 20:12:57 Benno Pütz wrote:
> Try
>
> as.numeric(sub(".*\\(","", sub('\\)','',aa)))
>
> You may also want to look at regexec/regmatches for a more general approach
> ...
>
> On 02 Mar 2014, at 20:55, Doran, Harold <hdo...@air.org> wrote:
>
>> "1 (472)" "2 (445)" "3 (431)" "3 (431)" "5 (415)" "6 (405)" "7 (1)
>
> Benno Pütz
Another formulation, which breaks it into steps and may therefore
be easier to adopt to similar but different cases, is
aa0<-gsub("^[0-9]+ ","",aa)
aa0
# [1] "(472)" "(445)" "(431)" "(431)" "(415)" "(405)" "(1)"
as.numeric(gsub("[()]","",aa0))
# [1] 472 445 431 431 415 405 1
Ted.
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