I have it working now, I think. Since it's going into a regular
expression, I have to escape each of the escape characters, resulting
in four backslashes altogether:
> sub("[.]", "x", "a.b")
[1] "axb"
> sub("[.]", "\.", "a.b")
[1] "a.b"
> sub("[.]", "\\.", "a.b")
[1] "a.b"
> sub("[.]", "\\\.", "a.b")
[1] "a.b"
> sub("[.]", "\\\\.", "a.b")
[1] "a\\.b"
> cat(sub("[.]", "\\\\.", "a.b"))
a\.b>
or
> cat(sub("\\.", "\\\\.", "a.b"))
a\.b>
Dan
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