Is it correct that one does not need to escape special characters such as
"*" (are these
properly called metacharacters) inside []. If so, what is the logic to this?

mytest <- "he*llo"
sub("[*]","",mytest)
sub("\\*","",mytest)

[] is easier to read for me than \\. Is this what people tend to use?

Thanks.

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