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Let's say I have a string that reads "45216 Walnut Avenue Mary's Bake Shop".
I want to remove everything after the word Avenue, but I would like avenue to remain. How does this work?
I've tried the following with no luck:
a <- "45216 Walnut Avenue Mary's Bake Shop"
a <- gsub("Avenue.*$", "", a)
[1] "45216 Walnut "
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Press Ctrl + H to open the Find and Replace dialog. In the Find what box, enter one of the following combinations: To eliminate text before a given character, type the character preceded by an asterisk (*char). To remove text after a certain character, type the character followed by an asterisk (char*).
To remove everything after a specific character in a string:Use the String. split() method to split the string on the character. Access the array at index 0 . The first element in the array will be the part of the string before the specified character.
Extract text before or after space with formula in Excel Select a blank cell, and type this formula =LEFT(A1,(FIND(" ",A1,1)-1)) (A1 is the first cell of the list you want to extract text) , and press Enter button.
Probably the most direct way to do this would be by capturing "Avenue" with () and then chopping off everything that appears after it:
a <- "45216 Walnut Avenue Mary's Bake Shop"
gsub("(Avenue).*", "\\1", a)
You'll get:
## [1] "45216 Walnut Avenue"
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