Re: [R] yet another regular expression

On Mon, 30 Jun 2014 11:13:18 PM Jim Lemon wrote: > Hi all, > I have managed, with the help of glob2rx() to get two parts of a text > manipulation working. I have successfully gotten rid of the first and > second bits, but I have hit the wall trying to get rid of the last bit. > Here's an example: >

Re: [R] yet another regular expression

Hi Jim, May be this helps: library(stringr) paste(str_extract_all(initString, perl('(?<=\\:)[[:alnum:]]+,?'))[[1]],collapse="") #[1] "value1,value2" A.K. On Monday, June 30, 2014 9:58 AM, Jim Lemon wrote: Hi all, I have managed, with the help of glob2rx() to get two parts of a text manipula

Re: [R] yet another regular expression

If everything Regular Expressions could do could be done with globbing then RE would likely not exist. I have interpreted your problem as: Start at the beginning of the string ("^") match stuff that is not a colon ("[^:]") match a colon (":') keep stuff that is not a comma ("([^,]*)") match a co

Re: [R] yet another regular expression

ew England Armidale NSW 2351 Email: home: mac...@northnet.com.au -Original Message- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Jim Lemon Sent: Monday, 30 June 2014 23:13 To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: [R] yet another regular expression Hi all, I have m

[R] yet another regular expression

Hi all, I have managed, with the help of glob2rx() to get two parts of a text manipulation working. I have successfully gotten rid of the first and second bits, but I have hit the wall trying to get rid of the last bit. Here's an example: initString<- "\"Delete this\":value1,\"Delete this too\