[R] Removing special chars in strings?

[William Dunlap]

> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 6:59 PM
> To: William Dunlap
> Cc: R-help at r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R] Removing special chars in strings?
> 
> I got it!
> 
> Where did I find the table relating the code and the respective meaning?

Did you start with help("character")?  Aside from the \a they are
the traditional C ones (e.g., Kernighan and Richie, 1978, p 181).

 \a   alert (bell)
 \b   backspace
 \t   tab
 \n   newline
 \v   vertical space
 \f   formfeed
 \r   carriage return (without newline)
 \'   single quote
 \"   double quote

print() shows the backslashed version (except for \', which is not
required) and cat() causes the user interface to display their
"meaning".  Not all user interfaces support all of them.

Bill Dunlap
Spotfire, TIBCO Software
wdunlap tibco.com 


> 
> 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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