try this:
S <- c("World_is_beautiful", "one_two_three_four","My_book")
sapply(strsplit(S, "_"), tail, n = 2)[1, ]
# or
sapply(strsplit(S, "_"), function(x) x[length(x) - 1])
I hope it helps.
Best,
Dimitris
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From: "Shubha Vishwanath Karanth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 11:02 AM
Subject: [R] Regular Expressions
Hi R,
Again struck with regular expressions...
Suppose,
S=c("World_is_beautiful", "one_two_three_four","My_book")
I need to extract the last but one element of the strings. So, my
output should look like:
Ans=c("is","three","My")
gsub() can do this...but wondering how do I give the regular
expression....
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