[R] matching problem

[Hans-Joerg Bibiko]

On 27 Jun 2008, at 13:56, Tom.O wrote:

>
> Well I have tried that and it's unfortuanally not the solution.
> This return all the characters in the string, but I dont want the  
> characters
> after the ending non-character symbol. Only the starting characters  
> ore of
> interest.
>
>> gsub("\\W*","", myexstrings,perl=T)
> [1] "AAAAA" "BBBBB" "CCC"   "ddd"
>


Oops,

try this one:

gsub("^\\W*(\\w+)\\W.*","\\1", myexstrings,perl=T)

--Hans