Thank you, Joshua! I got what I was looking for using this command: as.numeric(grepl("\\*$", qb$Player)) Where the variable name is "Player" in dataset "qb". -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Extract-character-from-the-end-of-a-string-tp3621732p3624124.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.