[R] Does R support [:punct:] in regexps?

Daniel Brewer
2009-04-09T11:10:05Z

Hello does R support [:punct:] in regular expressions?  I am trying to
strip all regular expressions for a vector of strings.

> x <- c("yoda-yoda","billy!")
> gsub("/[:punct:]/","",x)
[1] "yoda-yoda" "billy!"

Thanks

Dan
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