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Remove characters after multiple points "…"

I have strings like these:

text <- c("11. Availability...17", "1. Turnover...7")

I want:

c("11. Availability", "1. Turnover")

My idea is to remove everything behind/including the "…" .
Unfotunately I’m not able to fix it with gsub() or similar.

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>Solution :

You can use,

gsub('\\.\\.\\..*', '', text)
#[1] "11. Availability" "1. Turnover"
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