[R] Replace sub string

[Ivan Calandra]

Hi,

See ?gsub
But why would you do that? Both / and \\ are valid in a path, aren't they?

Ivan

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Le 22/03/12 13:35, Ajay Askoolum a écrit :
> Given:
>
>> filename<-paste(tempdir(),"\\","myfile.txt",sep="");
>> sub("\\\\","/",filename);
> [1] "C:/DOCUME~1\\AJAYAS~1\\LOCALS~1\\Temp\\Rtmp2f270T\\myfile.txt"
>
>
> Note: Only the first occurence of \\ is replaced. What is the syntax for replacing every occurence?
>
> Thanks.
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