Re: Regular Expressions

> S=c("World_is_beautiful", "one_two_three_four","My_book")

> I need to extract the last but one element of the strings. So, my
> output should look like:
 
> Ans=c("is","three","My")

> gsub() can do this...but wondering how do I give the regular
expression....

sapply(strsplit(S, "_"), function(x) x[length(x)-1])

You could use regular expressions, but I think it would only be
complicating things.

Regards,
Richie.

Mathematical Sciences Unit
HSL


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