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...ollowed by sessionInfo(). Thanks in advance for your help. I'm going to be doing a lot of text mining in the near future. I have an excellent O'Reilly book on regex's. What is the best reference for R's special treatment of these animals? Mark myCharVec <- c("[the rain in spain]", "(the rain in spain)") gsub('\\[*.\\]', '', myCharVec) #what I get # [1] "[the rain in spai" "(the rain in spain)" #what I want [1] "" "(the rain in spain)" > sessionInfo() R version 2.10.0 Under development (unsta...