Hi, I was working on following expression : "\":\"03-JAN-2018 16:00:00\"" This is basically a combination of Date and Time mixed with some Noise. I want to extract only Date and Time part i.e. "03-JAN-2018 16:00:00 I tried following : gsub("![0-9][0-9]-[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z]-[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9] [0-9][0-9]:[0-9][0-9]:[0-9][0-9]", "", "\":\"03-JAN-2018 16:00:00\"", ignore.case = TRUE) Obviously, with above code, I am removing that portion of my string which I actually I wanted! How can I reverse above code, so that I will be removing that portion of my string which I actually I ***NOT*** wanted? Thanks for your time. Happy New Year!
On Wed, Jan 03, 2018 at 07:56:27PM +0530, Christofer Bogaso wrote:> Hi, > > I was working on following expression : > > "\":\"03-JAN-2018 16:00:00\"" > > > This is basically a combination of Date and Time mixed with some Noise. > > I want to extract only Date and Time part i.e. "03-JAN-2018 16:00:00 > > I tried following : > > gsub("![0-9][0-9]-[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z]-[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9] > [0-9][0-9]:[0-9][0-9]:[0-9][0-9]", "", "\":\"03-JAN-2018 16:00:00\"", > ignore.case = TRUE) > > Obviously, with above code, I am removing that portion of my string > which I actually I wanted! > > How can I reverse above code, so that I will be removing that portion > of my string which I actually I ***NOT*** wanted? > ....You may find strptime() more suitable for the intended purpose. Peace, david -- David H. Wolfskill r at catwhisker.org If you want the best Fake News, go to the best source of it: Donald J. Trump. See http://www.catwhisker.org/~david/publickey.gpg for my public key. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 603 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/attachments/20180103/0f273b60/attachment.sig>
Hello, I believe the following regex will do it. x <- "\":\"03-JAN-2018 16:00:00\"" sub('^.*(\\d{2}-\\w{3}-\\d{4} \\d{2}:\\d{2}:\\d{2})[:"]', '\\1', x) Hope this helps, Rui Barradas On 1/3/2018 2:26 PM, Christofer Bogaso wrote:> Hi, > > I was working on following expression : > > "\":\"03-JAN-2018 16:00:00\"" > > > This is basically a combination of Date and Time mixed with some Noise. > > I want to extract only Date and Time part i.e. "03-JAN-2018 16:00:00 > > I tried following : > > gsub("![0-9][0-9]-[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z]-[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9] > [0-9][0-9]:[0-9][0-9]:[0-9][0-9]", "", "\":\"03-JAN-2018 16:00:00\"", > ignore.case = TRUE) > > Obviously, with above code, I am removing that portion of my string > which I actually I wanted! > > How can I reverse above code, so that I will be removing that portion > of my string which I actually I ***NOT*** wanted? > > Thanks for your time. > > Happy New Year! > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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. >