[R] split a string a keep the last part

Hi everyone, I believe I am not the first one to have this problem but couldn't find a relevant thread on the list. Say I have a string (actually it is the whole column in a data frame) in a format like this: test- 'AF14-485-502-89-00235' I would like to split the test string and keep the last

Re: [R] split a string a keep the last part

Here's one way: R test- 'AF14-485-502-89-00235' R test2 - strsplit(test, -) R test2 [[1]] [1] AF14 485 502 8900235 R test2[[1]][length(test2[[1]])] [1] 00235 On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 1:41 PM, Jun Shen jun.shen...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, I believe I am not the first one to have

Re: [R] split a string a keep the last part

On Aug 28, 2014, at 12:41 PM, Jun Shen jun.shen...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, I believe I am not the first one to have this problem but couldn't find a relevant thread on the list. Say I have a string (actually it is the whole column in a data frame) in a format like this: test-

Re: [R] split a string a keep the last part

On Thu, 28 Aug 2014, Jun Shen jun.shen...@gmail.com writes: Hi everyone, I believe I am not the first one to have this problem but couldn't find a relevant thread on the list. Say I have a string (actually it is the whole column in a data frame) in a format like this: test-

Re: [R] split a string a keep the last part

Thanks for everyone who replied with those wonderful solutions! Jun On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 2:11 PM, Enrico Schumann e...@enricoschumann.net wrote: On Thu, 28 Aug 2014, Jun Shen jun.shen...@gmail.com writes: Hi everyone, I believe I am not the first one to have this problem but

Re: [R] split a string a keep the last part

Delete all characters up to and including the last hyphen with sub(.*-, , test) Bill Dunlap TIBCO Software wdunlap tibco.com On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 10:41 AM, Jun Shen jun.shen...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, I believe I am not the first one to have this problem but couldn't find a