How about: x <- as.numeric(sub("^S([0-9]+):([0-9]+)$", "\\1", xx)) y <- as.numeric(sub("^S([0-9]+):([0-9]+)$", "\\2", xx))
2014-08-01 16:46 GMT+02:00 Doran, Harold <hdo...@air.org>: > I have done an embarrassingly bad job using a mixture of gsub and strsplit > to solve a problem. Below is sample code showing what I have to start with > (the vector xx) and I want to end up with two vectors x and y that contain > only the digits found in xx. > > Any regex users with advice most welcome > > Harold > > xx <- c("S24:57", "S24:86", "S24:119", "S24:129", "S24:138", > "S24:163") > yy <- gsub("S","\\1", xx) > a1 <- gsub(":"," ", yy) > a2 <- sapply(a1, function(x) strsplit(x, ' ')) > x <- as.numeric(sapply(a2, function(x) x[1])) > y <- as.numeric(sapply(a2, function(x) x[2])) > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.