escape_special {rebus.base}

Escape special characters

Description

Prefix the special characters with a blackslash to make them literal characters.

Usage

escape_special(x, escape_brace = TRUE)

Arguments

x

A character vector.

escape_brace

A logical value indicating if opening braces should be escaped. If using R's internal PRCE engine or stringi's ICU engine, you want this. If using the perl engine, you don't.

Value

A character vector, with regex meta-characters escaped.

Note

Special characters inside character classes (except caret, hypen and closing bracket in certain positions) do not need to be escaped. This function makes no attempt to parse your regular expression and decide whether or not the special character is inside a character class or not. It simply escapes every value.

Examples

escape_special("\\ ^ $ . | ? * + ( ) { } [ ]")