[R] Dealing with special characters at end of line in file

[Bert Gunter]

... or used the fixed = TRUE argument.

> z <-"In  Alvarez Cabral street by no. 105.\\000"

> sub("\\000","", z, fixed = TRUE)
[1] "In  Alvarez Cabral street by no. 105."


Bert Gunter

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On Sat, Dec 15, 2018 at 7:32 AM J C Nash <profjcnash using gmail.com> wrote:

> I am trying to fix up some image files (jpg) that have comments in them.
> Unfortunately, many have had extra special characters encoded.
>
> rdjpgcom, called from an R script, returns a comment e.g.,
>
> "In  Alvarez Cabral street by no. 105.\\000"
>
> I want to get rid of "\\000", but sub seems
> to be giving trouble.
>
> > sub("\\000", "", ctxt)
> [1] "In  Alvarez Cabral street by no. 105.\\0"
>
> Anyone know how to resolve this?
>
> JN
>
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