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2010 May 05
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extracting a matched string using regexpr
Given a text like
I want to be able to extract a matched regular expression from a piece of
text.
this apparently works, but is pretty ugly
# some html
test<-"</tr><tr><th>88958</th><th>Abcdsef</th><th>67.8S</th><th>68.9\nW</th><th>26m</th>"
# a pattern to extract 5 digits
> pattern<-"[0-9]{5}"
# regexpr returns a start point[1] and an attribute "match.length"
attr(,"match.length)
# get the substring from the st...