what is the problem that you are trying to solve? you need the double \\ since
they have a special meaning in quoted strings. in this case they represent a
since backslash. if you really had a single one, then something like this '\n'
would be a carriage return.
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On Nov 4, 2011, at 5:35, Kay Cichini <kay.cich...@uibk.ac.at> wrote:
> I want to replace \\ with \ in:
> str <-
> "C:\\DOKUME~1\\u0327336\\LOKALE~1\\Temp\\RtmpQ5NJ8X\\TIRIS_PICS\\1_Img.jpg"
>
> and tried:
> gsub("\\\\", "\\", str)
>
> but this removes the \\ without replacing them by \
>
> Any help much appreciated,
> Kay
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