Ramya -
Try
strings = c('UV7C11-F9-E1 MCS#9831019','MCS Lot #9512516')
sub('^.*?(\\d{5,}).*?$','\\1',strings,perl=TRUE)
[1] "9831019" "9512516"
The regular expression finds the first string of five or
more numbers in the strings. Since you said the numbers could
occur anywhere in the string, you could have provided some
examples where the numbers weren't the last part of the string.
- Phil Spector
Statistical Computing Facility
Department of Statistics
UC Berkeley
spec...@stat.berkeley.edu
On Mon, 7 Dec 2009, Ramya wrote:
Hi there
I have a string like this i want to extract 9831019 from this string i used
a regular expresion \d+ by which i can only make it to see 7 and returns.
This type of number(9831019) appears in any part of the string and is
definitely more than 5 digits all the time and i want to give that as a
condition
UV7C11-F9-E1 MCS#9831019
MCS Lot #9512516"
how do i go abt it
Ramya
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