On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 03:41:50PM -0600, Glenn Schultz wrote: > All, > > I have the following files in a directory and I would like only a list of > those starting with “lld" and ending with “dat”. I used the following and it > gives me the lld files > > list.files(path = readpath, pattern = "^lld[A-Z0-9]") > > to get just .dat files I tried > > list.files(path = readpath, pattern = "^lld[A-Z0-9].dat$”) but nothing is > returned > > > below is a dput from the first command. $ is an end of line anchor correct? > What am I doing wrong?
Note that help(list.files) mentions (among other things):
| Note:
|
| File naming conventions are platform dependent. The pattern
| matching works with the case of file names as returned by the OS.
Also, your pattern ("^lld[A-Z0-9].dat$") does not include the '_'
character.
I was able to get the results you requested in my environment (FreeBSD
stable/11) using:
list.files(path = readpath, pattern = "^lld[_A-Z0-9]*.dat$")
(Note the '*' in there, as well.)
But "filename globbing" is not the same as "regular expressions," and as
the above-cited Note warns, results may well be platform-dependent, so
be careful.
> Best,
> Glenn
> ....
Peace,
david
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