There are no backslash characters in the string "bla\ble\bli".
"\b" is used to indicate a backspace character, just
as "\n" is used to indicate a newline character.
You can get rid of the backslash characters with
> gsub("\b","","bla\ble\bli")
[1] "blaleli"
or change them to b's with
> gsub("\b","b","bla\ble\bli")
[1] "blablebli"
Bill Dunlap
Spotfire, TIBCO Software
wdunlap tibco.com
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> Subject: [R] Removing special chars in strings?
>
> Hi all,
>
> How can I replace those "\" in the str?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> func <- function(str) {
> print(gsub("\\","",str))
> }
> func("bla\ble\bli")
>
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