Re: [R] Regular expression substitution ...

2009-11-03 Thread Uwe Ligges
Sander Timmer wrote: It's a bit strange: sub(/pc, '\\%', x) [1] % sub(/pc, '%', x) [1] \\% Also with fixed I'm not able to get a single \ as return value. Well, you get the printed representation (i.e. the quoted backslash - quoted with anotern backslash). Use cat(sub(/pc,

[R] Regular expression substitution ...

2009-11-02 Thread Roberto Brunelli
I would like to replace all occurences of /pc with \% using something like sub(/pc, \%, x) but I am unable to make the '\' pass through. Any hint? Thanks, Roberto __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list

Re: [R] Regular expression substitution ...

2009-11-02 Thread Sander Timmer
It's a bit strange: sub(/pc, '\\%', x) [1] % sub(/pc, '%', x) [1] \\% Also with fixed I'm not able to get a single \ as return value. Sander On 2 nov 2009, at 12:36, Roberto Brunelli wrote: I would like to replace all occurences of /pc with \% using something like sub(/pc,