From ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk  Tue Mar 25 06:43:21 2008
From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian Ripley)
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 05:43:21 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Rd] regexp with [:upper:] (PR#11032)
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That is correct: I suspect you meant the character class [[:upper:]]

> grep( '[[:upper:]]', letters, val=TRUE)
character(0)

You asked for matches amongst :upper:, and that is what you got.
As ?rexexp does say

      (Note that the
      brackets in these class names are part of the symbolic names, and
      must be included in addition to the brackets delimiting the
      bracket list.)

this appears to be a homework failure.

On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, mark.bravington at csiro.au wrote:

> Full_Name: Mark Bravington
> Version: 2.6.2 patched
> OS: Windows XP Pro
> Submission from: (NULL) (140.79.22.104)
>
>
>> grep( '[:upper:]', letters, val=T) # shurely shouldn't match anything ??
> [1] "e" "p" "r" "u"
>
> The converse ( '[:lower:]' and LETTERS) seems to work OK.
>
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> year = 2008
> month = 03
> day = 21
> svn rev = 44836
> language = R
> version.string = R version 2.6.2 Patched (2008-03-21 r44836)
>
> Windows XP (build 2600) Service Pack 2
>
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[Rd] regexp with [:upper:] (PR#11032)
Prof Brian Ripley