[R] Help with regular expressions.

[Bert Gunter]

> gsub("(.*\\.[^.]*)\\.(.*)","\\1-\\2", "aa.bcv.cdg")
[1] "aa.bcv-cdg"

Cheers,
Bert

Bert Gunter

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On Mon, Feb 8, 2021 at 6:29 PM Rolf Turner <r.turner using auckland.ac.nz> wrote:

>
> I want to deal with strings of the form "a.b.c" and to change (using
> sub() or whatever is appropriate) the second "." to a "-", i.e. to
> change "a.b.c" to "a.b-c".  I want to leave the first "." as-is.
>
> I guess I could do a gsub(), changing all "."s to "-"s, and then do
> a sub() changing the first "-" back to a ".".  But this seems very
> kludgy.  There must be a sexier way.  Mustn't there?  Is there regular
> expression syntax for picking out the second occurence of a particular
> string?
>
> cheers,
>
> Rolf Turner
>
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