How to replace '$' sign?
Hi, If you just want to remove the $, it must be escaped because $ is a special character in regular expressions.
gsub("\\$", "", "$232,685.35436")
[1] "232,685.35436" But it looks like you actually want to remove both $ and , Modifying your code:
gsub("\\$|,", "", "$232,685.35436")
[1] "232685.35436" Or my preferred idiom:
gsub("[$,]", "", "$232,685.35436")
[1] "232685.35436" Sarah On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Christofer Bogaso
<bogaso.christofer at gmail.com> wrote:
Hello again, I want to remove "$" 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
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