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  1. x<-"Saint A/74/PV.46 12/12/2019 4/66 19-40538 Lucia"
  2. gsub("\\s*(?<!\\S)(?!\\p{L}+(?!\\S))\\S+", "", x, perl=TRUE)
  3. library(stringr)
  4. str_replace_all(x, "\\s*(?<!\\S)(?!\\p{L}+(?!\\S))\\S+", "")
Success #stdin #stdout 0.23s 43208KB
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Standard input is empty
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[1] "Saint Lucia"
[1] "Saint Lucia"