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R: Remove part of strings after occurrence of a character

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Remove part of strings after occurrence of a character

Remove part of strings after “.”

a <- c("NM_020506.1", "NM_020519.1", "NM_001030297.2", "NM_010281.2", "NM_011419.3", "NM_053155.2")
gsub("\\..*","",a)

[1] "NM_020506" "NM_020519" "NM_001030297" "NM_010281" "NM_011419" "NM_053155"