On 12-06-14 6:23 PM, Lopez, Dan wrote:
Hi,

I have been trying to get the sub function to work but can't for the life of me 
figure it out. I tried looking at ?sub but I think there is something that I am 
just not understanding.

Example failed attempts
sub("\\","/","G:\Compensation Audits_Reports\Step Audit\Steps off Step.accdb")
Error: '\C' is an unrecognized escape in character string starting "G:\C"

This isn't anything to do with sub(), it's the third string that's the problem. When you say "G:\Comp..." it thinks you've escaped the C, but there's no such escape.

Duncan Murdoch


sub("\\","/","G:\Compensation Audits_Reports\Step Audit\Steps off 
Step.accdb",fixed=TRUE)
Error: '\C' is an unrecognized escape in character string starting "G:\C"

sub("\\","/","G:\Compensation Audits_Reports\Step Audit\Steps off 
Step.accdb",fixed=FALSE)
Error: '\C' is an unrecognized escape in character string starting "G:\C")

sub("/","\","G:\Compensation Audits_Reports\Step Audit\Steps off Step.accdb")
Error: unexpected symbol in "sub("/","\","G"

Thanks.
Dan

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