I'd like to replace one or more than one full-stop in my strings with a blank.
I've tried the following, but either none of the full-stops gets replaced with a blank, or the entire string gets replaced with a blank.
# Toy Data
book = c("eggs.", "flour...", "..butter", "bakingpowder", "coco..dark")
# Attempt at replacing full stops with blanks
gsub(".+", "", book)
sub("(.+)", "", book)
gsub(".\\+", "", book)
sub("(.\\+)", "", book)
# Expected result
book = c("eggs", "flour", "butter", "bakingpowder", "cocodark")
Thanks for any help!
