sub specific string from pathway in R

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D/How/CDS_2021/20210104/ASUS_0001_0001/QBA_X302LA/20201201_ABA_Window_X302LA
D/How/CDS_2021/20210106/ASUS_0002_0001/QBA_X302LA/20201204_ABA_Window_X302LA
D/How/CDS_2021/20210109/ASUS_0003_0001/QBA_X302LA/20201207_ABA_Window_X302LA
D/How/CDS_2021/20210111/ASUS_0004_0001/QBA_X302LA/20201210_ABA_Window_X302LA
D/How/CDS_2021/20210115/ASUS_0005_0001/QBA_X302LA/20201218_ABA_Window_X302LA
D/How/CDS_2021/20210117/ASUS_0007_0001/QBA_X302LA/20201228_ABA_Window_X302LA

How do I get only after No3. slash string,like

SaleDate
20210104
20210106
20210109
20210111
20210115
20210117
text-extraction vector r
3 Answers

Use strsplit with sep = "/" to split your strings between directories. Then get the fourth element using sapply and [:

vec = c("D/How/CDS_2021/20210104/ASUS_0001_0001/QBA_X302LA/20201201_ABA_Window_X302LA",
        "D/How/CDS_2021/20210106/ASUS_0002_0001/QBA_X302LA/20201204_ABA_Window_X302LA",
        "D/How/CDS_2021/20210109/ASUS_0003_0001/QBA_X302LA/20201207_ABA_Window_X302LA")

data.frame(SaleDate = sapply(strsplit(vec, '/'), `[`, 4))

  SaleDate
1 20210104
2 20210106
3 20210109
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You could use word from stringr:

library(stringr)

word(x, 4, sep = '/')
# [1] "20210104" "20210106" "20210109"

or str_extract():

str_extract(x, "(?<=/)\\d+(?=/)")
Data
x <- c("D/How/CDS_2021/20210104/ASUS_0001_0001/QBA_X302LA/20201201_ABA_Window_X302LA",
       "D/How/CDS_2021/20210106/ASUS_0002_0001/QBA_X302LA/20201204_ABA_Window_X302LA",
       "D/How/CDS_2021/20210109/ASUS_0003_0001/QBA_X302LA/20201207_ABA_Window_X302LA")
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  • We can use gsub
y <- gsub(".*/(\\d*)/.*" , "\\1" , x)
  • Output
[1] "20210104" "20210106" "20210109" "20210111" "20210115"
[6] "20210117"

and if you want to transform the result to a date object you can use

as.Date(y , "%Y%m%d")

[1] "2021-01-04" "2021-01-06" "2021-01-09" "2021-01-11"
[5] "2021-01-15" "2021-01-17"
  • Data
x <- c("D/How/CDS_2021/20210104/ASUS_0001_0001/QBA_X302LA/20201201_ABA_Window_X302LA", 
"D/How/CDS_2021/20210106/ASUS_0002_0001/QBA_X302LA/20201204_ABA_Window_X302LA", 
"D/How/CDS_2021/20210109/ASUS_0003_0001/QBA_X302LA/20201207_ABA_Window_X302LA", 
"D/How/CDS_2021/20210111/ASUS_0004_0001/QBA_X302LA/20201210_ABA_Window_X302LA", 
"D/How/CDS_2021/20210115/ASUS_0005_0001/QBA_X302LA/20201218_ABA_Window_X302LA", 
"D/How/CDS_2021/20210117/ASUS_0007_0001/QBA_X302LA/20201228_ABA_Window_X302LA"
)
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