I have following " 1975 01 7711.16" Here I need to identify where the <space> is there and then concatenate rest of the digits without <space>, i.e. I want to have "1975017711.16". Is there any R function? Regards,
Try this: str <- " 1975 01 7711.16" # Find the position of the space in string gregexpr("[[:space:]]", str) # Remove the space gsub("[[:space:]]", "", str) On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 9:07 AM, Megh Dal <megh700004@yahoo.com> wrote:> I have following > > " 1975 01 7711.16" > > Here I need to identify where the <space> is there and then concatenate > rest of the digits without <space>, i.e. I want to have "1975017711.16". Is > there any R function? > > Regards, > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org 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. >-- Henrique Dallazuanna Curitiba-Paraná-Brasil 25° 25' 40" S 49° 16' 22" O [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
on 09/10/2008 07:07 AM Megh Dal wrote:> I have following > > " 1975 01 7711.16" > > Here I need to identify where the <space> is there and then > concatenate rest of the digits without <space>, i.e. I want to have > "1975017711.16". Is there any R function?See ?gsub: # Strip out blanks> gsub(" ", "", " 1975 01 7711.16")[1] "1975017711.16" # Strip out non-numeric or decimal> gsub("[^0-9\\.]", "", " 1975 01 7711.16")[1] "1975017711.16" HTH, Marc Schwartz
Is this what you want:> gsub(" ", "", " 1975 01 7711.16")[1] "1975017711.16">On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 8:07 AM, Megh Dal <megh700004 at yahoo.com> wrote:> I have following > > " 1975 01 7711.16" > > Here I need to identify where the <space> is there and then concatenate rest of the digits without <space>, i.e. I want to have "1975017711.16". Is there any R function? > > Regards, > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org 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. >-- Jim Holtman Cincinnati, OH +1 513 646 9390 What is the problem that you are trying to solve?