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2024 Jul 29
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Question about regexp edge case
On StackOverflow (here:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/78803652/why-does-gsub-in-r-match-one-character-too-many)
there was a question about this result:
> gsub("^([0-9]{,5}).*","\\1","123456789")
[1] "123456"
The OP expected "12345" as the result. Several points were raised:
- The R docs don't mention the case of {,5} for the