On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 10:28 PM, William Dunlap <wdun...@tibco.com> wrote:
> The most reliable way to split such lines is with parse(text=x).
> Regular expressions don't do well with context-free grammars.
>
Oh, that's right of course.
> as.character(parse(text = x))
[1] "foo <- \"3;4\"" "bar <- \"don't ; use semicolons\""
That was simple enough, thanks very much,
Adrian
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