[R] Doubt about pattern

[Roger Bivand]

On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Marcelo Luiz de Laia wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> I have a very simple problem. I have several files in a same directory.
> I would like to send for an object only the files that finish in
> ".sens.". I execute the command below,
> 
> files <- dir(pattern="*.sens")

see help(regexp) - "period '.' matches any single character" - I think you 
need to escape the '.' possibly as "\\.sens$".


> 
> but it includes all of the files that have "sens", independent of they
> be in the end or in the middle of the name of the file. How could I
> solve this? I sought in the html_help but I didn't find similar to this.
> 
> My files
> 
> "script_sens.txt", "Sen_155_01_R1.sens", "Sen_155_01_R2.sens",
> "Sen_155_01_R3.sens", "Sen_155_02_R1.sens", "Sen_155_02_R2.sens",
> "Sen_155_02_R3.sens", "Sen_155_03_R1.sens", "Sen_155_03_R2.sens",
> "Sen_155_03_R3.sens", "tome2sens_time1sens.txt"
> 
> Tahnks very much
> 
> 

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