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Asked: 2026-06-01T00:23:49+00:00

Let’s say I have strings like this: PH&N 2015 LifeTime Series D PH&N 2020

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Let’s say I have strings like this: 

PH&N 2015 LifeTime Series D
PH&N 2020 LifeTime Series D
PH&N 2025 LifeTime Series D
PH&N 2030 LifeTime Series D
PH&N 2035 LifeTime Series D
PH&N 2040 LifeTime Series D
PH&N 2045 LifeTime Series D

How would I move the numbers to the end like this, using R: 

PH&N LifeTime Series D 2015
PH&N LifeTime Series D 2020
PH&N LifeTime Series D 2025
... and so on

A solution using gsub() would be preferable.

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     gsub("([[:alpha:]]+\\s)([[:digit:]]+)\\s(.+)", "\\1\\3 \\2", dat2$V1)

    [1] “PH&N LifeTime Series D2015 ” “PH&N LifeTime Series D2020 ” “PH&N LifeTime Series D2025 ” “PH&N LifeTime Series D2030 ” “PH&N LifeTime Series D2035 ” “PH&N LifeTime Series D2040 ”
    [7] “PH&N LifeTime Series D2045 “

    I see that Justin asked why his worked and the same Q applies to my solution. This would seem to be more correct:

    gsub("([[:alpha:][:punct:]]+\\s)([[:digit:]]+)\\s(.+)", "\\1\\3 \\2", dat2$V1)
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