How to replace '$' sign?
On Mar 28, 2013, at 10:39 AM, Christofer Bogaso <bogaso.christofer at gmail.com> wrote:
Hello again, I want to remove "$" sign and replace with nothing in my text. Therefore I used following code:
gsub("$|,", "", "$232,685.35436")
[1] "$232685.35436" However I could not remove '$' sign. Can somebody help me why is it so? Thanks and regards
The dollar sign is a metacharacter in regular expressions (see ?regex), thus has to be escaped to be interpreted as a literal character:
gsub("\\$|,", "", "$232,685.35436")
[1] "232685.35436" Regards, Marc Schwartz