Remove pattern from string with gsub

Question

I am struggling to remove the substring before the underscore in my string  I want to use    wildcard  as the bit before the underscore can vary   a  lt - c  foo 5    bar 7    a  lt - gsub           a  perl   TRUE    The result should look like    gt  a  1  5 7   I also tried stuff like      or     but did not really work

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The following code works on your example    gsub            a

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Alternatively  you can also try   gsub    S         a

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as numeric gsub pattern        replacement       a   1  5 7

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Just to point out that there is an approach using functions from the tidyverse  which I find more readable than gsub   a   gt   stringr  str remove pattern

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