Thanks. That fixes things.

I saw mention of \\. in ?Quotes, but the usage was not clear. I took it to mean the \ was to be printed. Maybe my little example would help, as ?Quotes doesn't have any.

JN

Henrique Dallazuanna wrote:
You need double backslashes:

grep('\\.f', cvec, value = TRUE)

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Prof. John C Nash <nas...@uottawa.ca <mailto:nas...@uottawa.ca>> wrote:

    If I run


    cvec<-c("test.f", "test.sf", "try.g","try.res", "try.f")
    print(cvec)
    indx<-grep('\.f',cvec,perl=TRUE)
    fset<-cvec[indx]
    print(fset)

    I get

     > cvec<-c("test.f", "test.sf", "try.g","try.res", "try.f")
     > print(cvec)
    [1] "test.f"  "test.sf" "try.g"   "try.res" "try.f"
     > indx<-grep("\.f",cvec,perl=TRUE)
    Warning messages:
    1: '\.' is an unrecognized escape in a character string
    2: unrecognized escape removed from "\.f"
     > fset<-cvec[indx]
     > print(fset)
    [1] "test.f"  "test.sf" "try.f"
     >

    This ignores the . for which I want to test.

    In perl, the function

    #!/usr/bin/perl
    use strict;
    my @cvec=("test.f", "test.sf", "try.g","try.res", "try.f");
    foreach my $elem (@cvec) {
      print "$elem : ";
      if ( $elem =~ '\.f' ) {
          print "matches \n";
      } else {
          print "does not match \n";
      }
    }


    gives

    $ perl perlmatch.pl
    test.f : matches
    test.sf : does not match
    try.g : does not match
    try.res : does not match
    try.f : matches
    $

    which does what I want. It looks like a bug (or at least a nasty
    documentation failure) of "perl=TRUE".

    Anyone have suggestions of how to get appropriate filtering? I need
    this to automate optimization tests on large sets of test problems.

    Cheers, JN

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