[R] Removing special chars in strings?

[William Dunlap]

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> Subject: Re: [R] Removing special chars in strings?
> 
> There are no backslash characters in the string "bla\ble\bli".
> "\b" is used to indicate a backspace character, just
> as "\n" is used to indicate a newline character.
> 

> You can get rid of the XbackslashX characters with
                          backspace

>   > gsub("\b","","bla\ble\bli")
>   [1] "blaleli"
> or change them to b's with
>   > gsub("\b","b","bla\ble\bli")
>   [1] "blablebli"
> 
> Bill Dunlap
> Spotfire, TIBCO Software
> wdunlap tibco.com
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
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> > Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 6:33 PM
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> > Subject: [R] Removing special chars in strings?
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > How can I replace those "\" in the str?
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > func <- function(str) {
> >   print(gsub("\\","",str))
> > }
> > func("bla\ble\bli")
> >
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