On Jan 5, 2014, at 12:45 AM, Ron Michael wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am struggling to extract a part of string using regular expression in R.
>
> Let say, the string to be extracted is 'ron' from the expression 'my name is
> ron'. So I tried following:
>
>> gsub("[^(ron)]", "", 'my name is ron')
> [1] "nron"
>
>
> I was expecting to get 'ron', which is not the case.
The "[" operator in regex does not take into account the sequence of the target
letters so you get all "r", all"o", and all "n" in the order in which they
occur. "[onr]" will have the same meaning as "[ron]".
Try:
> gsub("^.*(ron).*$", "\\1", 'my name is ron')
[1] "ron"
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David Winsemius
Alameda, CA, USA
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