On 31.07.2014 04:46, carol white wrote:
There are some level of variation either chars followed by numbers or chars,
numbers, chars
Perhaps, I should use gsub as you suggested all and if the string is composed
of chars followed by numbers, it will return the 3rd part empty?
Please read about regularvexpressions and describe your problem
accurately. If the last strings are onot always present, use * rather
than + at the very end of the regular expression.
Best,
Uwe Ligges
Regards,
Carol
On Wednesday, July 30, 2014 10:52 PM, Marc Schwartz <marc_schwa...@me.com>
wrote:
On Jul 30, 2014, at 3:13 PM, carol white <wht_...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Hi,
If I have a string of consecutive chars followed by consecutive numbers and then chars,
like "absdfds0213451ab", how to separate the consecutive chars from consecutive
numbers?
grep doesn't seem to be helpful
grep("[a-z]","absdfds0213451ab", ignore.case=T)
[1] 1
grep("[0-9]","absdfds0213451ab", ignore.case=T)
[1] 1
Thanks
Carol
grep() will only tell you that a pattern is present. You want to use gsub() or
similar with back references to return parts of the vector.
Will they ALWAYS appear in that pattern (letters, numbers, letters) or is there
some level of variation?
If they will always appear as in your example, then one approach is:
strsplit(gsub("([a-z]+)([0-9]+)([a-z]+)", "\\1 \\2 \\3", "absdfds0213451ab"), "
")
[[1]]
[1] "absdfds" "0213451" "ab"
The initial gsub() returns the 3 parts separated by a space, which is then used
as the split argument to strsplit().
If there will be some variation, you can use multiple calls to gsub() or
similar, each getting either the letters or the numbers.
Regards,
Marc Schwartz
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