Hello, from a vector of strings I want to delete everything after the _> v <- c("AAA_BB", "FF_MM") > gsub("_*", "", v)[1] "AAABB" "FFMM" but should be [1] "AAA" "FF" Why does * not work? Even perl=TRUE does not give me the right result Man thanks! -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/gsub-to-manipulate-characters-tp4416939p4416939.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
On 24-02-2012, at 12:48, syrvn wrote:> Hello, > > from a vector of strings I want to delete everything after the _ > >> v <- c("AAA_BB", "FF_MM") >> gsub("_*", "", v) > [1] "AAABB" "FFMM" > > > but should be > [1] "AAA" "FF" > > > Why does * not work? Even perl=TRUE does not give me the right result >gsub("_.*$", "", v) Berend