Re: Feature request: plain option for gsub

[Jonas Thiem <jonasthiem@...>]

I am  too bad at regexes to judge, but please skip the first answer on
stackoverflow and read the second. This seems to be what is actually
required to process arbitrary input.

On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 9:36 PM, Petite Abeille
<petite.abeille@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Aug 20, 2014, at 9:03 PM, Jonas Thiem <jonasthiem@googlemail.com> wrote:
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>> Alternatively, I'm also happy for easier solutions to get this
>> behavior of gsub if this is already possible in an easier way that I
>> haven't seen.
>
> gsub( '%p', '%%%0’ ) seems hardy ‘monstrous’.