I need to change a vector dd that looks like this:
c("LBAM 5|A|15C|3h", "LBAM 5|K|15C|2h")
into this:
c("LBAM 5|15C|3h", "LBAM 5|15C|2h")
It's not very imaginative, but I could use a complicated nesting of
gsub() as so:
gsub("-", "\\|", gsub("K-", "", gsub("A-", "", gsub("\\|", "-", dd))))
Or I could make it a bit more readable by using interim objects,
But I'd prefer to use a single regular expression that can detect "A|"
*and* "K|" without collateral damage from the impact of special
characters and regular characters.
TIA
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