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Thank you Jim, The code did assist me to get the what I needed. Also, I learnt that there are different types of dashes (en-dash/em-dash/hyphen) as explained on this site : http://www.punctuationmatters.com/hyphen-dash-n-dash-and-m-dash/ I achieved it by executing below command after going through this page on stackoverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9223795/how-to-correctly-deal-with-escaped-unicode-characters-in-r-e-g-the-em-dash splitends<-sapply(end,strsplit,"-|\u2013|,&quot...

Hi Sunny, Try this: # notice that I have replaced the fancy hyphens with real hyphens end<-c("2001-","1992-","2013-","2013-","2013-","2013-", "1993-2007","2010-","2012-","1984-1992","1996-","2015-") splitends<-sapply(end,strsplit,"-") last_bit(x)

Hi, I have a char vector with year values. Some cells have single year value '2001-' and some have range like 1996-2007. I need to remove hyphen character '-' from all the values within the character vector named as 'end'. After removing the hyphen I need to get the last number from the cells where there are year range values i.e if the cell has range 1996-2007, the code