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

[Rui Barradas]

And here is another.

sub("\\.", " ", "c.t")

Rui Barradas

Em 19-11-2016 01:35, Bert Gunter escreveu:
> Well of course. See ?regexp where it says:
>
> "The period . matches any single character."
>
> (Always a good idea to read man pages, although this *is* a complex one)
>
> Setting the fixed argument to TRUE  is one way to get what you want
> (there are others).
>
>> sub(".", " ", "c.t",fixed=TRUE)
> [1] "c t"
>
> Bert
>
> Bert Gunter
>
> "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along
> and sticking things into it."
> -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip )
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 4:13 PM, John <miaojpm at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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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