Hi,
On Aug 26, 2009, at 6:38 PM, Martin Batholdy wrote:
hi,
is there an easy way to extract numbers from a string?
for example I have;
"this Item costs 3.32 Dollars"
is there an easy way to extract the 3.32 as a number?
Regular expressions to the rescue?
Perhaps you'll need to fine tune it, but see here:
R> gregexpr("(\\d+(\\.\\d+)?)", "this Item costs 3.32 Dollars", perl=T)
[[1]]
[1] 17
attr(,"match.length")
[1] 4
R> gregexpr("(\\d+(\\.\\d+)?)", "this Item costs 3.32 Dollars, that
item costs 10.12 dollars", perl=T)
[[1]]
[1] 17 47
attr(,"match.length")
[1] 4 5
R> gregexpr("(\\d+(\\.\\d+)?)", "this Item costs 3.32 Dollars, that
item costs 10 dollars even, ", perl=T)
[[1]]
[1] 17 47
attr(,"match.length")
[1] 4 2
R> gregexpr("(\\d+(\\.\\d+)?)", "this one is free ", perl=T)
[[1]]
[1] -1
attr(,"match.length")
[1] -1
HTH,
-steve
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