[R] regular expression submatch?

sjaffe
Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:57:40 -0000

What is the simplest way to extract a matched subexpression?

Eg. in perl you can do

"hello world" =~ m/hello (.*)/

which would return 1(true) and set $1 to the matched subexpression
"world".

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