Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>
> Actually, that's a valid regex in any of the variants offered. A more
> conventional writing of it is the second of
>
>> f <- 'foo.bar.R'
>> sub("[.][^.]*$", "", f)
> [1] "foo.bar"
>> sub("\\.[^.]*$", "", f)
> [1] "foo.bar"
>
more conventional in r, perhaps. it's not portable, due to the 'escape
the escape to have an escape' feature of r when it comes to regexes; in
perl, for example, /\\.[^.]*$/ would hardly do the job.
vQ
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