On 29/04/2011 7:41 PM, Miao wrote:
Hello,
Can anyone help on gsub() in R? I have a string like something below, and
wanted to delete all the strings with leading backslash, including "\xa0On",
"\023, "\xab", and many others. How should I write a regular expression
pattern in gsub()? I don't care how many characters following backslash.
If those are R strings, none of them contain a backslash. In R, a
backslash would always be printed as \\.
\x is the introduction to a hexadecimal encoding for a character; the
next two characters show the hex digits. So your first string contains
a single character \xa0, the third one contains \xab, and so on.
The \023 is an octal encoding for a single character.
Duncan Murdoch
txt<- "Is This Thing\xa0On? http://bit.ly/jAbKem wait \023 for people \xab
and be patient :"
Thanks in advance,
Miao
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