On 24-02-2012, at 12:48, syrvn wrote:
> Hello,
>
> from a vector of strings I want to delete everything after the _
>
>> v <- c("AAA_BB", "FF_MM")
>> gsub("_*", "", v)
> [1] "AAABB" "FFMM"
>
>
> but should be
> [1] "AAA" "FF"
>
>
> Why does * not work? Even perl=TRUE does not give me the right result
>
gsub("_.*$", "", v)
Berend
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