Sorry, silly question, gsub works already with regex. But still, if I
add `[[:blank:]]` still I don't get rid of all instances. And I am
keeping obtaining extra columns
```
> df[df$VAL] = gsub("[[:blank:]Value is]", "", df$VAL, ignore.case=TRUE)
> df[df$VAL] = gsub("[[:blank:]Value is]", "", df$VAL, ignore.case=TRUE);df
VAR VAL value is blue Value is red empty
1 1 value is blue b b b
2 2 Value is red rd rd rd
3 3 empty mpty mpty mpty
```
On Mon, Aug 9, 2021 at 12:40 PM Luigi Marongiu <marongiu.lu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thank you, that is much appreciated. But on the real data, the
> substitution works only on few instances. Is there a way to introduce
> regex into this?
> Cheers
> Luigi
>
> On Mon, Aug 9, 2021 at 11:01 AM Jim Lemon <drjimle...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Luigi,
> > Ah, now I see:
> >
> > df$VAL<-gsub("Value is","",df$VAL,ignore.case=TRUE)
> > df
> > VAR VAL
> > 1 1 blue
> > 2 2 red
> > 3 3 empty
> >
> > Jim
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 9, 2021 at 6:43 PM Luigi Marongiu <marongiu.lu...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > > I have a dataframe where I would like to change the string of certain
> > > rows, essentially I am looking to remove some useless text from the
> > > variables.
> > > I tried with:
> > > ```
> > > > df = data.frame(VAR = 1:3, VAL = c("value is blue", "Value is red",
> > > > "empty"))
> > > > df[df$VAL] = gsub("value is ", "", df$VAL, ignore.case = TRUE, perl =
> > > > FALSE)
> > > > df
> > > VAR VAL value is blue Value is red empty
> > > 1 1 value is blue blue blue blue
> > > 2 2 Value is red red red red
> > > 3 3 empty empty empty empty
> > > ```
> > > which is of course wrong because I was expecting
> > > ```
> > > VAR VAL
> > > 1 1 blue
> > > 2 2 red
> > > 3 3 empty
> > > ```
> > > What is the correct syntax in these cases?
> > > Thank you
> > >
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> Luigi
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