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Asked: 2026-05-25T02:00:15+00:00

I have a character vector in which each element is enclosed in brackets. I

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I have a character vector in which each element is enclosed in brackets. I want
to remove the brackets and just have the string.

So I tried:

n = c("[Dave]", "[Tony]", "[Sara]")

paste("", n, "", sep="")

Unfortunately, this doesn’t work for some reason.

I’ve performed the same task before using this same code, and am not sure why it’s not working this time.

I want to go from '[Dave]' to 'Dave'.

What am I doing wrong?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You could gsub out the brackets like so:

    n = c("[Dave]", "[Tony]", "[Sara]")

gsub("\\[|\\]", "", n)
[1] "Dave" "Tony" "Sara"
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