I cannot imagine you looked very hard... this kind of question pops up all the
time on this mailing list. Read the help fur the sub() function... you want to
search for something and replace it with an empty string ("").
You should also know by now to post plain text on this mailing list.
On October 11, 2018 8:59:11 PM PDT, lily li <chocol...@gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi R users,
>
>I don't know how to extract certain words in strings. For example, if I
>have strings like the formats "StationName1_temp.csv",
>"StationName2_temp.csv", etc. How to get strings like these
>"StationName1",
>"StationName2", etc? That is to say, I want to exclude the keywords
>"_temp.csv", but I could not find a clue online. Thanks for your help.
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