On Wed, Jan 03, 2018 at 07:56:27PM +0530, Christofer Bogaso wrote: > Hi, > > I was working on following expression : > > "\":\"03-JAN-2018 16:00:00\"" > > > This is basically a combination of Date and Time mixed with some Noise. > > I want to extract only Date and Time part i.e. "03-JAN-2018 16:00:00 > > I tried following : > > gsub("![0-9][0-9]-[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z]-[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9] > [0-9][0-9]:[0-9][0-9]:[0-9][0-9]", "", "\":\"03-JAN-2018 16:00:00\"", > ignore.case = TRUE) > > Obviously, with above code, I am removing that portion of my string > which I actually I wanted! > > How can I reverse above code, so that I will be removing that portion > of my string which I actually I ***NOT*** wanted? > ....
You may find strptime() more suitable for the intended purpose. Peace, david -- David H. Wolfskill r...@catwhisker.org If you want the best Fake News, go to the best source of it: Donald J. Trump. See http://www.catwhisker.org/~david/publickey.gpg for my public key.
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