Removing curly brackets in R

Question

How to remove curly brackets in R? Eg. "{abcd}" to "abcd" How can I use gsub function in R to do this? If any other method is available, please suggest.

Accepted Answer

Try this

```
gsub("\{|\}", "", "{abcd}")
[1] "abcd"
```

Or this

```
gsub("[{}]", "", "{abcd}")
```

Removing curly brackets in R

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