On 26 June 2005 at 20:30, Spencer Graves wrote:
| How can one convert back slashes to forward slashes, e.g, changing
| "c:\a\b" to "c:/a/b"? I tried the following:
|
| > gsub("\\\\", "/", "c:\a\b")
| [1] "c:\a\b"
This does work, provided you remember that single backslashed "don't exist"
as e.g. \a is a character in itself. So use doubles are you should be fine:
> gsub("\\\\", "/", "c:\\a\\b")
[1] "c:/a/b"
Hth, Dirk
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