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I am new to R and have searched the forum for almost 2 hours now without getting it to work for me.



My problem: I have a long text string scraped from internet. As I scraped code for images were included. The are coded in a way that they start with "Embed from Getty Images" and ends with "false })});n". I would like to remove everything in between those strings. I have tried gsub() as per: 



AmericanTexts3 <- gsub("Embed.*})});n", "", AmericanTexts)


But what happens then is that they remove everything between the first picture and the last picture. Do anyone know how to solve this?






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    I am new to R and have searched the forum for almost 2 hours now without getting it to work for me.



    My problem: I have a long text string scraped from internet. As I scraped code for images were included. The are coded in a way that they start with "Embed from Getty Images" and ends with "false })});n". I would like to remove everything in between those strings. I have tried gsub() as per: 



    AmericanTexts3 <- gsub("Embed.*})});n", "", AmericanTexts)


    But what happens then is that they remove everything between the first picture and the last picture. Do anyone know how to solve this?






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    closed as off-topic by Henrik, Sven Hohenstein, Umair, Sahil Mahajan Mj, Rob Nov 16 '18 at 12:24


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      I am new to R and have searched the forum for almost 2 hours now without getting it to work for me.



      My problem: I have a long text string scraped from internet. As I scraped code for images were included. The are coded in a way that they start with "Embed from Getty Images" and ends with "false })});n". I would like to remove everything in between those strings. I have tried gsub() as per: 



      AmericanTexts3 <- gsub("Embed.*})});n", "", AmericanTexts)


      But what happens then is that they remove everything between the first picture and the last picture. Do anyone know how to solve this?






      r regex







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      I am new to R and have searched the forum for almost 2 hours now without getting it to work for me.



      My problem: I have a long text string scraped from internet. As I scraped code for images were included. The are coded in a way that they start with "Embed from Getty Images" and ends with "false })});n". I would like to remove everything in between those strings. I have tried gsub() as per: 



      AmericanTexts3 <- gsub("Embed.*})});n", "", AmericanTexts)


      But what happens then is that they remove everything between the first picture and the last picture. Do anyone know how to solve this?






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      closed as off-topic by Henrik, Sven Hohenstein, Umair, Sahil Mahajan Mj, Rob Nov 16 '18 at 12:24


      This question appears to be off-topic. The users who voted to close gave this specific reason:


      • "Questions seeking debugging help ("why isn't this code working?") must include the desired behavior, a specific problem or error and the shortest code necessary to reproduce it in the question itself. Questions without a clear problem statement are not useful to other readers. See: How to create a Minimal, Complete, and Verifiable example." – Henrik, Sven Hohenstein, Umair, Sahil Mahajan Mj, Rob

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      closed as off-topic by Henrik, Sven Hohenstein, Umair, Sahil Mahajan Mj, Rob Nov 16 '18 at 12:24


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          You need to use a non-greedy regular expression.



          Try 



          AmericanTexts3<-gsub("Embed.*?})});n","",AmericanTexts)


          The ? matches the first occurence of the second part of the regex, so that only the part between the matches should be removed.






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            You need to use a non-greedy regular expression.



            Try 



            AmericanTexts3<-gsub("Embed.*?})});n","",AmericanTexts)


            The ? matches the first occurence of the second part of the regex, so that only the part between the matches should be removed.






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              You need to use a non-greedy regular expression.



              Try 



              AmericanTexts3<-gsub("Embed.*?})});n","",AmericanTexts)


              The ? matches the first occurence of the second part of the regex, so that only the part between the matches should be removed.






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                You need to use a non-greedy regular expression.



                Try 



                AmericanTexts3<-gsub("Embed.*?})});n","",AmericanTexts)


                The ? matches the first occurence of the second part of the regex, so that only the part between the matches should be removed.






                share|improve this answer













                You need to use a non-greedy regular expression.



                Try 



                AmericanTexts3<-gsub("Embed.*?})});n","",AmericanTexts)


                The ? matches the first occurence of the second part of the regex, so that only the part between the matches should be removed.







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