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2012 Nov 21
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Problems understanding use of regular expression (in gsub) for manipulating currency
Hello,
After reading help file, various threads on this board, and other online tutorials, I've attempted to use gsub (using Perl-like syntax) to change a currency string into something that can be converted to numeric type using only one regular expression. Can anybody point out my error? Note that
> x <- "\"$ 1,200,300,400.50\""
Tried the following in an