I got it! Where did I find the table relating the code and the respective meaning?
I want to replace ". Thanks On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 10:47 PM, William Dunlap <wdun...@tibco.com> wrote: > 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 > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On >> Behalf Of . . >> Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 6:33 PM >> To: R-help@r-project.org >> 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") >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. > ______________________________________________ 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.