Yep, thank you Jeff, consequence of the first url I landed on asking how to do
it and rushing off.
All set now.
Appreciate your help.
WHP
From: Jeff Newmiller <jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us>
Sent: Friday, March 15, 2019 4:00 PM
To: r-help@r-project.org; Bill Poling <bill.pol...@zelis.com>; r-help
(r-help@r-project.org) <r-help@r-project.org>
Subject: Re: [R] Help with gsub function
Your pattern seems ... way overboard? Why not
gsub("-", "", tb2a$TID)
On March 15, 2019 12:45:27 PM PDT, Bill Poling <mailto:bill.pol...@zelis.com>
wrote:
>Good afternoon.
>
>sessionInfo()
>#R version 3.5.3 (2019-03-11)
>#Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
>#Running under: Windows >= 8 x64 (build 9200)
>
>I am using gsub function to remove a hyphen in a 9 character column of
>values in order to convert it to integer.
>
>Works fine except where the second segment has a leading 0, then it is
>eliminating the 0
>
>Example "73-0700090" becomes " 73700090"
> "77-0633896" becomes "77633896"
>
>Is there a remedy for this?
>
>tb2a$TID2 <-
>
>head(tb2a$TID,n=10)
>[1] "11-1352310" "45-2711804" "35-6001540" "77-0633896" "62-1762545"
>"61-1029768" "73-0700090" "47-0376604" "47-0486026" "38-3833117"
>> head(tb2a$TID2,n=10)
>[1] "111352310" "452711804" "356001540" "77633896" "621762545"
>"611029768" "73700090" "47376604" "47486026" "383833117"
>
>I have googled the problem and have not found a solution.
>
>http://www.endmemo.com/program/R/gsub.php
>http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/extracting-characters-from-string-td3298971.html
>
>
>Thank you.
>
>WHP
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