Thanks Bernd! I tried your approach with my real example, sometimes it worked,
sometimes it didn't. For example
grep('[^(arg)]\\.symptom',"stomach.symptom",value=T)
[1] "stomach.symptom"
grep('[^(arg)]\\.symptom',"liver.symptom",value=T)
character(0)
I think both examples should return the text, but the 2nd example didn't.
What was wrong here?
Thanks
John
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From: Bernd Weiss <bernd.we...@uni-koeln.de>
Sent: Thu, March 31, 2011 5:32:25 PM
Subject: Re: [R] regular expression
Am 31.03.2011 19:31, schrieb array chip:
> Hi, I am stuck on this: how to specify a match pattern that means not
> to include "abc"?
>
> I tried:
>
> grep("^(abc)", "hello", value=T) should return "hello".
> grep("[^(abc)]", "hello", value=T)
[1] "hello"
HTH,
Bernd
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