[R] Replace a dot in a string (".") with a space (" ")

[Omar André Gonzáles Díaz]

Hi, your were close.

This is the solution:

sub("[.]", " ", "c.t")

You need to scape the point, because point has a especial meaning in
regular expressions. Read more on regex...

2016-11-18 19:13 GMT-05:00 John <miaojpm at gmail.com>:

> Hi,
>
>    Is there any function that replaces a dot with a space? I expect "c t"
> from the output of the second call of function sub, but it did not do so.
>
> > sub("a", "b", "cat")
> [1] "cbt"
> > sub(".", " ", "c.t")
> [1] " .t"
>
> Thanks!
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