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Asked: June 9, 20262026-06-09T03:11:01+00:00 2026-06-09T03:11:01+00:00

I am struggling to remove the substring before the underscore in my string. I

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I am struggling to remove the substring before the underscore in my string.
I want to use * (wildcard) as the bit before the underscore can vary:

a <- c("foo_5", "bar_7")

a <- gsub("*_", "", a, perl = TRUE)

The result should look like:

> a
[1] 5 7

I also tried stuff like “^*” or “?” but did not really work.

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    2026-06-09T03:11:05+00:00Added an answer on June 9, 2026 at 3:11 am

    The following code works on your example :

    gsub(".*_", "", a)
    
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