I have an example where escaping "." does not seem to be behaving
consistently, but perhaps it is due to my misunderstanding. Could someone
explain to me why the below produces the output it does?
It seems to me that in the second example, where I am being more precise
about specifying that a "." (dot) should be between the numbers, should
produce the same output as the first example, but it does not.
As an aside, is there a document or help page that specifies which
characters need to be escaped to form regex's in R? I can't find one.
Finally, how does one grep for the escape character? I've tried
grep ("\\", vector)
grep ("\\\", vector)
grep("\\\\", vector)
all without success.
Thanks, Mark
a <- "160.15.05.00"
grep("[1-9]+.[0-9]+\\.[0-9]+\\.[0-0]+", a)
# [1]
grep("[1-9]+\\.[0-9]+\\.[0-9]+\\.[0-0]+", a)
# integer(0)
> sessionInfo()
R version 2.11.0 Under development (unstable) (2009-12-28 r50849)
x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
locale:
[1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C
[3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
[5] LC_MONETARY=C LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
[7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C
[9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
attached base packages:
[1] grid stats graphics grDevices datasets utils methods
[8] base
other attached packages:
[1] Rgraphviz_1.25.1 graph_1.25.4
loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] tools_2.11.0
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Indiana University School of Medicine
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