Why do you think this is a bug in R? You have not told us what you
expected, but the character range |-| contains only | . Not agreeing with
your expectations (unstated or otherwise) is not a bug in R.
\- is the same as -, and - is special in character classes. (If it is
first or last it is treated literally.) And | is not a metacharacter
inside a character class. Also,
> grep("[d\\-c]", c("a-a","b"))
[1] 1 2
> grep("[d\\-c]", c("a-a","b"), perl=TRUE)
[1] 1
shows that escaping - works only in perl (which you will find from the
background references mentioned, e.g.
The interpretation of an ordinary character preceded by a backslash
('\') is undefined.
.)
This is all carefully documented in ?regexp, e.g.
Patterns are described here as they would be printed by 'cat': do
remember that backslashes need to be doubled in entering R
character strings from the keyboard.
This is not the first time you have wasted our resources with false
bug reports, so please show more respect for the R developers' time.
You were also explicitly asked not to report on obselete versions of R.
On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Full_Name: FAN
> Version: 2.4.0
> OS: Windows
> Submission from: (NULL) (159.50.101.9)
>
>
> These are expected:
>
>> grep("[\-|c]", c("a-a","b"))
> [1] 1
>
>> gsub("[\-|c]", "&", c("a-a","b"))
> [1] "a&a" "b"
>
> but these are strange:
>
>> grep("[d|\-|c]", c("a-a","b"))
> integer(0)
>
>> gsub("[d|\-|c]", "&", c("a-a","b"))
> [1] "a-a" "b"
>
> Thanks
>
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