[R] yet another regular expression

[Duncan Mackay]

Hi Jim

What about trying to use what you want to keep

m=gregexpr('\\":value[12]+[}]?,', initString)
regmatches(initString, m)
[[1]]
[1] "\":value1,"  "\":value2},"

Duncan

Duncan Mackay
Department of Agronomy and Soil Science
University of New England
Armidale NSW 2351
Email: home: mackay at northnet.com.au

-----Original Message-----
From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On
Behalf Of Jim Lemon
Sent: Monday, 30 June 2014 23:13
To: r-help at r-project.org
Subject: [R] yet another regular expression

Hi all,
I have managed, with the help of glob2rx() to get two parts of a text 
manipulation working. I have successfully gotten rid of the first and 
second bits, but I have hit the wall trying to get rid of the last bit.
Here's 
an example:

initString<-
 "\"Delete this\":value1,\"Delete this too\":value2},Delete last bit"
sub("\"Delete this too\":","",
 sub(glob2rx("*this\":*"),"",initString),fixed=TRUE)

This gives me:

[1] "value1,value2},Delete last bit"

and glob2rx("},*") just won't get rid of the last bit. I throw myself upon 
the mercy of the regular expression gurus.

Jim

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