Treat part of a regular expression literally
Treats its contents as literal characters. Equivalent to using
fixed = TRUE
, but for part of the pattern rather than all of it.
literal(x)
x |
A character vector. |
A character vector representing part or all of a regular expression.
(rx <- digit(1, 3)) (rx_literal <- literal(rx)) # Usage stringi::stri_detect_regex("123", rx) stringi::stri_detect_regex("123", rx_literal) stringi::stri_detect_regex("[[:digit:]]{1,3}", rx_literal)
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