[R] Regular expression

arun smartpink111 at yahoo.com
Tue Jan 15 22:52:12 CET 2013


HI,
vec1<-"'asd'f"
 vec2<-'"asd"f'
 gsub("[\"]","",vec2)
#[1] "asdf"
 gsub("[']","",vec1)
#[1] "asdf"
A.K.





----- Original Message -----
From: Christofer Bogaso <bogaso.christofer at gmail.com>
To: r-help <r-help at r-project.org>
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Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 4:38 PM
Subject: [R] Regular expression

Hello again,

I am having a problem on Regular expression. Let say I have following code:

> gsub("[',]", "", "'asd'f")
[1] "asdf"


This is perfect. However I am having problem if I include "" (i.e. the
double quote) in the first argument as the pattern search:

> gsub("[',"]", "", "'asd'f")
Error: unexpected ']' in "gsub("[',"]"


What is the right way to include the 'double quote' in the search field?

Thanks for your help.

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