See
?Encoding and ?iconv:
iconv("\xc1d\xe1m", from = '', to = 'latin1')
On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Webby <mailing-l...@gmx.net> wrote:
>
> Dear community,
>
> I have a problem with a string conversion:
>
> > text
> [1] "" "and" "\xc1d\xe1m"
> [4] "graphical" "interface" "MLP"
> [7] "Nagy" "networks" "Networks"
> [10] "neural" "Neural" "RBF"
> [13] "<sod...@yahoo.com>" "user" "with"
> [16] "and" "\xc1d\xe1m" "graphical"
> [19] "interface" "MLP"
> >
>
> I need to get rid off text[3,17] !
>
> I have this kind of control-sequence a few times in my text and I do not
> get
> rid of it, by strsplit or sub.
>
> > grep("\xc1d\xe1m",text)
> Error in grep("\xc1d\xe1m", text) :
> regular expression is invalid in this locale
> > grep("\\xc1d\\xe1m",text)
> integer(0)
> Warning messages:
> 1: In grep("\\xc1d\\xe1m", text) :
> input string 3 is invalid in this locale
> 2: In grep("\\xc1d\\xe1m", text) :
> input string 17 is invalid in this locale
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Georg
>
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