Hi Mark,
do you mean the regex to get the portion of the address after the
final slash? Something like
gsub(".*/([^/]*$)", "\\1", stock, fixed=FALSE)
Cheers
Andrew
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 07:29:25PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> If I have the string below. does someone know a regular expression to
> just get the "BLC.NYSE". I bought the O'Reilley
> book and read it when I can and I study the solutions on the list but
> I'm still not self sufficient with these things. Thanks.
>
>
> stock<-"/opt/limsrv/mark/research/equity/projects/testDL/stock_data/fhdb/US/BLC.NYSE"
>
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