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2010 Mar 26
1
regular expression
Hi,
I need to select a substring from the filename of a file in a list.
I can find all the filenames in a directory by
list.files(fn_dir)
Each filename has the format (the following is an example because field
lengths are variable)
XXX184_YYY_ZZZ.dat
XXX: 2 or 3 alphabetic characters
184: 3 numeric characters
...
I'd like to select the substring XXX which has variable length (from each