[R] Regular Expressions

Dimitris Rizopoulos
Tue, 13 May 2008 09:52:01 -0000

try this:

S <- c("World_is_beautiful",
"one_two_three_four","My_book")

sapply(strsplit(S, "_"), tail, n = 2)[1, ]
# or
sapply(strsplit(S, "_"), function(x) x[length(x) - 1])


I hope it helps.

Best,
Dimitris

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Shubha Vishwanath Karanth" <shubhak at ambaresearch.com>
To: <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 11:02 AM
Subject: [R] Regular Expressions


Hi R,



Again struck with regular expressions...



Suppose,



S=c("World_is_beautiful",
"one_two_three_four","My_book")



I need to extract the last but one element of the strings. So, my
output should look like:

Ans=c("is","three","My")



gsub() can do this...but wondering how do I give the regular
expression....







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