[R] gsub pattern?

[Christian Schulz]

many thanks
..the different styles from linux to r-project a little confusing for me :-(

christian

Peter Dalgaard wrote:

>Christian Schulz <ozric at web.de> writes:
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>>Hi,
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>>search in web for regular expressions i get the information that
>>the line  below replace all  AUTO string's like AUTOBAHN
>>,AUTORENNEN  with 1 but nothing happend.
>>Using the [] in the pattern it works like i'm expected, but i didn't
>>want single character replacment. Where is my mistake?
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>>bcode <- gsub("/^AUTO.*/","1",MyStringVector,ignore.case=T,extended=T)
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>What are the "/"-es for?
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