gsub/strsplit with multiple patterns/splits
Try this where you qualify how many characters you might match:
gsub(",{0,1} Inc[.]{0,1}", "", DF)
[1] "Aetna" "Alexander's" "Allegheny Energy"
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 6:05 PM, mdvaan <mathijsdevaan at gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
I have a vector like this:
DF <- c("Aetna, Inc.", "Alexander's Inc.", "Allegheny Energy, Inc")
For each element in the vector I would like to remove the "incorporated"
info, so that my vector looks like this:
DF <- c("Aetna", "Alexander's", "Allegheny Energy")
That means that I have to strip:
strip <- c(", Inc.", " Inc.", ", Inc")
How do I pass multiple patterns/splits to gsub/strsplit?
Thanks!
Math
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