Is this what you want:
> x <- "/pages-cell.net/deepan/sony/"
> z <- gsub("/(.*)/", "\\1", x)
>
> z
[1] "pages-cell.net/deepan/sony"
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 8:20 PM, Waverley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to extract some of the substring via pattern recognition. But
> I don't know how to do it in R.
>
> In perl:
> my $url = "/pages-cell.net/deepan/sony/";
>
> if($url =~ m/\/(.*)\//g)
> {
> my @result = $1;
> return @result;
> }
>
>
> How does the same work in R?
>
> Thanks much in advance
> --
> Waverley @ Palo Alto
>
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