Hi everyone,
I believe I am not the first one to have this problem but couldn't find a
relevant thread on the list.
Say I have a string (actually it is the whole column in a data frame) in a
format like this:
test<- 'AF14-485-502-89-00235'
I would like to split the test string and keep the last part. I think I can
do the following
sub('.*-.*-.*-.*-(.*)','\\1', test)
to keep the fifth part of the string. But this won't work if other strings
have more or fewer parts separated by '-'. Is there a general way to do it?
Thanks.
Jun
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