[R] changing character strings with hash marks

[arun]

Hi,
You could also use:

gsub("\\w","#","Mary plays football")
#[1] "#### ##### ########"
#or
gsub("[A-Za-z]", "#", "Mary plays football")

A.K.

----- Original Message -----
From: Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de>
To: simona mancini <mancinisimona at yahoo.it>
Cc: "r-help at r-project.org" <r-help at r-project.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2012 5:38 PM
Subject: Re: [R] changing character strings with hash marks



On 13.12.2012 22:30, simona mancini wrote:
> Hi R users,
>
> I am quite new to R and I don't know how to deal with this (surely) easy issue. I need to replace words in sentences with as many hash marks as the number of characters per each word, as in the following example:
>
> Mary plays football
> #### ##### ########

gsub("[[:alpha:]]", "#", "Mary plays football")

Uwe Ligges


> Any suggestion about the function to be used?
> Thanks a lot.
>
> S.
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