On 23/08/17 18:41, PIKAL Petr wrote:
Hi RolfI am not at all an expert in regex but gsub("[[:alpha:]]","",x) Works as you expected. Do not ask me why.
Thanks Petr. Stefan Evert's explanation clarified the issue. Which I must say *needed* some clarification!
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