How to strip everything after second whitespace?
Try this:
gsub("([a-z]*\\s[a-z]*).*", "\\1", nam)
[1] "Smith John" "Smith David" "Smith Ryan"
On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 4:11 PM, johannes rara <johannesraja at gmail.com> wrote:
How to split everything after second whitespace char using regular
expression? I want to remove A, B, C and D from these names:
nam <- c("Smith John A", "Smith David B C", "Smith Ryan C D")
Thanks,
Johannes
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