[R] Removing special chars in strings?

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I got it!

Where did I find the table relating the code and the respective meaning?

I want to replace ".

Thanks

On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 10:47 PM, William Dunlap <wdunlap at tibco.com> wrote:
> There are no backslash characters in the string "bla\ble\bli".
> "\b" is used to indicate a backspace character, just
> as "\n" is used to indicate a newline character.
>
> You can get rid of the backslash characters with
>  > gsub("\b","","bla\ble\bli")
>  [1] "blaleli"
> or change them to b's with
>  > gsub("\b","b","bla\ble\bli")
>  [1] "blablebli"
>
> Bill Dunlap
> Spotfire, TIBCO Software
> wdunlap tibco.com
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of . .
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 6:33 PM
>> To: R-help at r-project.org
>> Subject: [R] Removing special chars in strings?
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> How can I replace those "\" in the str?
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> func <- function(str) {
>>   print(gsub("\\","",str))
>> }
>> func("bla\ble\bli")
>>
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