The strapply function in gsubfn does that. See http://gsubfn.googlecode.com
On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 6:03 PM, OKB (not okblacke) <brenb...@brenbarn.net> wrote: > I'm trying to figure out how to get the text captured by capturing > groups out of a regex match. For instance, let's say I have the pattern > "foo ([^ ]+)" and I match it against the string "This is a foo sentence > I am reading." The group in the pattern will match the word "sentence" > in the target string. How can I get access to this matched group? All > I can seem to get the various grep/gsub functions to do is return or > modify the entire target string. Isn't there a way to extract ONLY the > text from a particular group or groups? > > Thanks, > -- > --OKB (not okblacke) > Brendan Barnwell > "Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is > no path, and leave a trail." > --author unknown > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > ______________________________________________ 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.
