I want to replace parts of a text Supposedly gsub would be capabale to do it.
This is an example of the kind of text:
text <- "[2017-12-29 18:24:52] Comentario añadido: SOME RANDOM TEXT I NEED ANALYZE
[2017-12-29 18:24:52] Comentario añadido: OTHER RANDOM TEXT
[2017-12-29 19:24:52] Comentario añadido: BLA BLA BLA
[2017-12-29 20:24:52] Comentario añadido: BLA BLA BLA BLABLA BLA BLABLA BLA BLA
[2017-12-29 21:24:52] Comentario añadido: BLA BLA BLABLA BLA BLABLA BLA BLA
[2017-12-29 22:24:52] Comentario añadido: BLA BLA BLABLA BLA BLA"
this is the desired result:
" | SOME RANDOM TEXT I NEED ANALYZE
| OTHER RANDOM TEXT
| BLA BLA BLA
| BLA BLA BLA BLABLA BLA BLABLA BLA BLA
| BLA BLA BLABLA BLA BLABLA BLA BLA
| BLA BLA BLABLA BLA BLA"
the idea is replace that info in order to savbe space and perform another analyzsys with less text.
This is what i get with gsub:
gsub("\\[.*\\] Comentario añadido:", " ° ", text)
[1] " ° BLA BLA BLABLA BLA BLA"
How can i achieve to replace al the cases?
thx in advanced
You may make . not match newlines:
gsub("(?n)\\[.*?] Comentario añadido:", " ° ", text)
^^^^
I also advise to use a lazy dot, .*?, just in case there are more ] chars on the line later. See the R demo online.
Another solution may be
gsub("\\[[^][]*] Comentario añadido:", " ° ", text)
Here, [^][]* matches zero or more chars other than ] and [.
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