Petr Savicky wrote: > > One of the suggestions in this thread was to use an external program. > A possible solution without negation in Perl is > > @a = ("AB15E9SDF654VKBN?dvb.65" =~ m/[0-9]/g); > print @a, "\n"; > 15965465 > >
Which is gsub("[^0-9]", "", "AB15E9SDF654VKBN?dvb.65") as Henrique suggested. Dieter -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Numbers-in-a-string-tp3088623p3090931.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.