hello, i am trying to extract text using regex as follows:
"* < <* this is my text > > " into: "this is my text" below what I did: varReg <- "* < <* this is my text > > " ## either this pattern patReg <- "(^[ <*]+)" ## or below patten patReg <- "([ > ]+$)" sub(patReg, '', varReg) depending of which patten I use, I could only extra the first portion or the last portion of the unwanted characters. how to extract both ends and keep my text "this is my text" ? I have tried with gsub, as below: patReg <- "([ >* ]+)" gsub(patReg, '', varReg) but it returned "thisismytext" any idea is appreciated. thanks, ferry ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
