str_escape {stringr} | R Documentation |
Escape regular expression metacharacters
Description
This function escapes metacharacter, the characters that have special
meaning to the regular expression engine. In most cases you are better
off using fixed()
since it is faster, but str_escape()
is useful
if you are composing user provided strings into a pattern.
Usage
str_escape(string)
Arguments
string |
Input vector. Either a character vector, or something coercible to one. |
Value
A character vector the same length as string
.
Examples
str_detect(c("a", "."), ".")
str_detect(c("a", "."), str_escape("."))
[Package stringr version 1.5.1 Index]