Remove string from Seurat Object

Question

[bioinformatics.girl]

Quick question which is taking me forever. Anyone have suggestions on how to remove the string following "FLOX_AO1" on the "SAMPLES" column? Yes, I've looked at resources but no solutions as of yet.

[fracarb8]

object$SAMPLES <- sub("FLOX_AO1_","",object$SAMPLES). I personally prefer to act directly on the metadata [e-mail]$SAMPLES <- ...