> I was trying strsplit(string,"\.\.\.") as per the suggestion in Venables > and Ripleys book to "(use '\.' to match '.')", which is in the Regular > expressions section. > > I noticed that in the suggestions sent to me people used: > strsplit(test,"\\.\\.\\.") > > > Could anyone please explain why I should have used "\\.\\.\\." rather than > "\.\.\."?
Basically, * you want to match . * so the regular expression you need is \. * and the way you represent that in a string in R is \\. Hadley -- Assistant Professor / Dobelman Family Junior Chair Department of Statistics / Rice University http://had.co.nz/ ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
