Regular expression in R to remove the part of a string after the last space

Created Dec 10, 2013 Edited Dec 10, 2013

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I would like to have a gsub expression in R to remove everything in a string that occurs after the last space. E.g. string="Da Silva UF" should return me "Da Silva". Any thoughts?

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Regular expression in R to remove the part of a string after the last space

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