Re: Special characters in patterns: what about \?

[Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho@...>]

On 27/06/2007 17:14, Mauro Iazzi wrote:
> The backslash is still considered escape at string constructor level.
> It is discarded before it arrives to gsub. Then gsub does not even
> know it was there and interprets the ^ as negating next char (it needs
> at least one). Anytime you want a backslash in a string just insert it
> twice.

Or just use literal strings, they are great for such use (and for 
Windows paths!)

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