Thank you very much, guys! As always - great learnings for me! Esp. + vs. *
On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 8:48 AM, Upton, Stephen (Steve) (CIV) <scup...@nps.edu> wrote: > And unless I'm mistaken, escaping the underscore is superfluous (I'd be > curious to know if it's a function of locale). > > x[grep("_", x)] > > x[grep("^q10.*_1$", x)] > > both work. > > steve > > Stephen C. Upton > SEED (Simulation Experiments & Efficient Designs) Center > Operations Research Department > Naval Postgraduate School > SEED Center web site: http://harvest.nps.edu > > -----Original Message----- > From: R-help [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Berend > Hasselman > Sent: Friday, September 18, 2015 1:30 AM > To: Dimitri Liakhovitski > Cc: r-help > Subject: Re: [R] Hep with regex! - combination of ^, |, \\, _ and $ > > >> On 17 Sep 2015, at 23:11, Dimitri Liakhovitski >> <dimitri.liakhovit...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> (x <- c("q10_1", "q10_2", "q10_11", "q12_1", "q12_2", "q13_1", >> "q13_11")) >> >> # Which strings start with "q10" or "q12? - WORKS x[grep("^q10|q12", >> x)] >> >> # Which strings end with "1"? - WORKS >> x[grep("1$", x)] >> >> # Which strings end with "_1"? - WORKS x[grep("\\_1$", x)] >> >> # Which strings start with "q10" AND contain a "1"? - WORKS >> x[grep("^q10.+1", x)] >> > > For these last to this should “work” > >> # Which strings start with "q10" AND end with a "_1"? - DOES NOT WORK >> x[grep("^q10.+\\_1$", x)] >> > > x[grep("^q10.*\\_1$", x)] > >> # Which strings start with "q10" or "q12 AND end with "_1"? - WORKS >> INCORRECTLY x[grep("^q10|q12.+\\_1$", x)] >> > > x[grep("^q10|q12.*\\_1$", x)] > > It’s the .+ that’s the problem. > > Berend > >> Thank you! >> Dimitri Liakhovitski >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >> 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. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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. -- Dimitri Liakhovitski ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.