On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 07:49 -0700, Thomas Lumley wrote: > On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > > > Here is an alternative: > > > > sub(".*(..)$", "\\1", x) > > > > For sufficiently small values of 3 ;) > all.equal(2.99999999, 3) [1] TRUE ;-) Marc