escapeRegex {Hmisc} | R Documentation |
Escapes any characters that would have special meaning in a reqular expression.
Description
Escapes any characters that would have special meaning in a reqular expression.
Usage
escapeRegex(string)
escapeBS(string)
Arguments
string |
string being operated on. |
Details
escapeRegex
will escape any characters that would have
special meaning in a reqular expression. For any string
grep(regexpEscape(string), string)
will always be true.
escapeBS
will escape any backslash ‘\’ in a string.
Value
The value of the string with any characters that would have special meaning in a reqular expression escaped.
Author(s)
Charles Dupont
Department of Biostatistics
Vanderbilt University
See Also
Examples
string <- "this\\(system) {is} [full]."
escapeRegex(string)
escapeBS(string)
[Package Hmisc version 5.1-3 Index]