On 23/10/2007 6:34 AM, Daniel Brewer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am having a problem searching for the "|" character in a string.
>
>> grep("|",stringvector)
> Gives all the strings in a vector but when I try to escape it
>> grep("\|",stringvector)
> It comes up with the error
> Warning messages:
> 1: '\|' is an unrecognized escape in a character string
> 2: unrecognized escape removed from "\|"
>
>
> Anyone know how to solve this?
Grep needs to see the escape character, so you need to escape that too,
i.e. use
grep("\\|",stringvector)
The \\ is the way to enter a single backslash in an R string. The
vertical bar isn't special to R, so it doesn't need escaping at that level.
Duncan Murdoch
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