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Reputation: 1109

R: how to remove \n and <br /> from text data

I have a text data like the following:

   hold that\nagainst me. i spend most of my days trying to build cool stuff for\nmy company. <br />\n<br />\ni'm an entrepreneur (like everyone else in sf, it seems) and i love\nwhat i do.

I used the following command but it has only removed \n and still remains.

   gsub("\n <br />", " ", h)

and when I tried this command, both of the characters are removed but the "re" in the actual text data is also removed. So, I am wondering what is a proper way to remove both.

 gsub("[\n <br />]", " ", h)

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2182

Answers (1)

Ben Bolker
Ben Bolker

Reputation: 226427

  text <- "hold that\nagainst me. i spend most of my days trying to build cool stuff for\nmy company. <br />\n<br />\ni'm an entrepreneur (like everyone else in sf, it seems) and i love\nwhat i do."

Use (pat1|pat2) to select different patterns ([] only works for single-character alternatives). 

 gsub("(\n|<br />)"," ",text)
 ## [1] "hold that against me. i spend most of my days trying to build cool stuff for my company.     i'm an entrepreneur (like everyone else in sf, it seems) and i love what i do."

Upvotes: 3

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