Thanks for the quick reply //Tom
Vladimir Eremeev wrote: > >> gregexpr("[0-9]","this1is2a3test") > [[1]] > [1] 5 8 10 > attr(,"match.length") > [1] 1 1 1 > >> unlist(gregexpr("[0-9]","this1is2a3test")) > [1] 5 8 10 > > > Tom.O wrote: >> >> I have this problem where I need to find if there is any numbers in a >> string, this is no problem if theres only one number per string. I would >> then simply use the regexpr() funtion togheter with the substring >> function to extract the number. But regexpr only picks one number per >> string either from the beginning or the end, but not multiple. Can this >> be done? And how >> >> for example >> My string <- "this1is2a3test" >> >> The result I want is an vector of c(1,2,3) >> > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Finding-multiple-characters-in-the-same-string-tf4205206.html#a11962577 Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.