[R] gsub: replacing slashes in a string

[ruipbarradas at sapo.pt]

Hello,

I failing to understand the problem, isn't the following what you want?

(test2 <- gsub("\\", "/", test, fixed = TRUE))
[1] "8/24/2016" "8/24/2016" "6/16/2016" "6/16/2016"

Hope this helps,

Rui Barradas


Citando Joe Ceradini <joeceradini at gmail.com>:

> Hi all,
>
> There are many R help posts out there dealing with slashes in gsub. I
> understand slashes are "escape characters" and thus need to be treated
> differently, and display differently in R. However, I'm still stuck on
> find-replace problem, and would appreciate any tips. Thanks!
>
> GOAL: replace all "\\" with "/", so when export file to csv all slashes are
> the same.
>
> (test <- c("8/24/2016", "8/24/2016", "6/16/2016", "6\\16\\2016"))
>
> Lengths are all the same, I think (?) because of how R displays/deals with
> slashes. However, when I export this to a csv, e.g., there are still double
> slashes, which is a problem for me.
> nchar(test)
>
> Change direction of slashes - works.
> (test2 <- gsub("\\", "//", test, fixed = TRUE))
>
> Now lengths are now not the same....
> nchar(test2)
>
> Change from double to single - does not work. Is this because it actually
> is a single slash but R is just displaying it as double? Regardless, when I
> export from R the double slashes do appear.
> gsub("////", "//", test2, fixed = TRUE)
> gsub("////", "//", test2)
> gsub("////////", "////", test2, fixed = TRUE)
> gsub("////////", "////", test2)
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