On 20.06.2008, at 19:27, calundergrad wrote:
i have a vector with a string of number
e.g
[1] 01130010000 001130011000 001130012000 001130013000 001130016000
[6] 001130018000
i want a vector with the same numbers except with the last three
digits of
every factor cut off.
e.g
[1] 01130010 001130011 001130012 001130013 001130016
[6] 001130018
how do i accomplish this?
One way:
gsub("(.*)(.{3})", "\\1", YOUR_VECTOR)
--Hans
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