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2010 Jul 16
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Deleting a variable number of characters from a string
...to delete a variable number of characters from the string. The string itself contains the number of characters to be deleted. The number of characters to be deleted is proceeded by either a "+" or a "-".
A toy example:
Suppose I have
x<-c("A-1CB-2GHX", "*+11gAgggTgtgggH")
> x
[1] "A-1CB-2GHX" "*+11gAgggTgtgggH"
What I need as output is
"ABX" "*H"
I know I can use gsub to remove the control character and the number portion with
gsub("(\\-|\\+)([0-9]+)", replacement="", x)
However, I can...