Removing certain characters from a string in R

Question

I have a string in R which contains a large amount of words  When viewing the string I get a large amount of text which includes text similar to the following    gt docs         u009cYes yes for ever for ever the boys cried in their ringing voices with softened faces         So I m wondering how to remove these  u009 characters  all of them  some of which have slightly different numbers  from the string  I ve tried using gsub    but that wasn t effective in removing the content from the strings

User · Accepted Answer

This should work  gsub   u009c       u009cYes yes for ever for ever the boys     Yes yes for ever for ever the boys     Here 009c is the hexadecimal number of unicode   You must always specify 4 hexadecimal digits  If you have many   one solution is to separate them by a pipe   gsub   u009c  u00F0       u009cYes yes  u00F0for ever for ever the boys and the girls     Yes yes for ever for ever the boys and the girls

User · Answer

try  gsub              5 00

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