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escapeRegex

Escape a regular expression

Description

This function takes a string and escapes all of the special characters in the string. For example, the . in VB.NET will be escaped with a slash (though regular R printing will make it look like there are two slashes).

Usage

escapeRegex(string)

Arguments

string

A regular expression to escape

Value

string, escaped.

Examples

## Not run: 
escapeRegex("Tom&Jerry")
escapeRegex(".Net")

## End(Not run)

crunch

Crunch.io Data Tools

v1.28.0

LGPL (>= 3)

Authors

Greg Freedman Ellis [aut, cre], Jonathan Keane [aut], Mike Malecki [aut], Neal Richardson [aut], Gordon Shotwell [aut]

Initial release