[R] grep : escape "*"

Duncan Murdoch murdoch at stats.uwo.ca
Fri Jan 9 16:49:02 CET 2009


On 1/9/2009 10:38 AM, David Hajage wrote:
> Dear R useRs,
> 
> Sorry for this foolish question, but I can't find how to escape the *
> character when using grep :

You use a backslash to escape the *.  Unfortunately, to enter a 
backslash in an R string, you need to escape it.  So the pattern is "\\*".

Duncan Murdoch

> 
>> grep("-", c("/3", "2*3", "4-4"))
> [1] 3
>> grep("/", c("/3", "2*3", "4-4"))
> [1] 1
>> grep("*", c("/3", "2*3", "4-4"))
> Erreur dans grep("*", c("/3", "2*3", "4-4")) :
>   expression régulière incorrecte '*'
> De plus : Warning message:
> In grep("*", c("/3", "2*3", "4-4")) :
>   erreur rgcomp : 'Expression régulière précédente incorrecte'
>> grep("\*", c("/3", "2*3", "4-4"))
> Erreur dans grep("*", c("/3", "2*3", "4-4")) :
>   expression régulière incorrecte '*'
> De plus : Warning messages:
> 1: '\*' est un code escape non reconnu dans une chaîne de caractères
> 2: code escape non reconnu éliminé de "\*"
> 3: In grep("*", c("/3", "2*3", "4-4")) :
>   erreur rgcomp : 'Expression régulière précédente incorrecte'
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> david
> 
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