On Jan 21, 2013, at 10:05 AM, Jeff Newmiller wrote:
So what is the special behavior of the ^ symbol when not at the
beginning of the string that occurs when it is not escaped?
Isn't there a distinction between what _is_ "special" and what should
be "special". You are saying that "^" after the beginning of a pattern
should not be special, and by extension that "$" before the end of a
pattern should not be special. What about the potential desire to have
a regex "conjunction" that picks from one of two patterns that are at
the beginning of a target? Doesn't "^" need to remain special to allow
this:
> grep("^thet|^that", c("thet is", "that is"))
[1] 1 2
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Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote:
On 13-01-21 11:48 AM, Jeff Newmiller wrote:
I am not sure I understand what worked perfectly, since it is my
understanding that ^ is only special at the beginning of the regex
(to
anchor the pattern at the beginning of the target string) or as the
first character of a character set (to indicate exclusion of the
listed
characters). In any other position the caret should behave like an
ordinary character. That is, your original pattern should have worked
as-is. This is supported by the help page documentation for regex in
the paragraph below the definition of [:xdigit:]. I think this is a
bug
in R.
It's a documentation error rather than a bug. The ^ character is
special anywhere in the extended RE syntax defined by the TRE library
or the Perl-compatible library that we use. This is inconsistent
with
the POSIX standard, which might be what you were thinking of.
Duncan Murdoch
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mtb...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Tsjerk, many thanks...that worked perfectly!
Mark Na
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 9:36 AM, Tsjerk Wassenaar
<tsje...@gmail.com>
wrote:
Oh, I'm jetlagged. ^ is a control character for 'start of string'.
In
the
context of a character set it means negation: [^a-z].
Ciao,
Tsjerk
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 4:33 PM, Tsjerk Wassenaar
<tsje...@gmail.com>wrote:
Hi Mark Na,
Try:
grepl("latitude\\^2",temp)
^ is a control character for negation, so you have to escape it.
Cheers,
Tsjerk
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 4:26 PM, <mtb...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello R-helpers,
I am trying to search for string that includes the caret symbol,
using
the
following code:
grepl("latitude^2",temp)
And R doesn't like that. It gives me:
temp<-c("latitude^2","latitude and
latitude^2","longitude^2","longitude
and longitude^2")
temp
[1] "latitude^2" "latitude and latitude^2"
"longitude^2"
"longitude and longitude^2"
grepl("latitude^2",temp)
[1] FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE
I think this must a regex problem, but I can't find out to
specify
the
caret using regex.
I would appreciate any help you could provide.
Many thanks,
Mark Na
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