This is hopefully a simple question. I am trying to escape single
quotes like so:
abc's >> abc\'s
However, I cannot find an easy way to do that with gsub:
gsub("'","\\\\'","abc's")
# returns "abc\\'s"
How can I get a single \ in the output?
Thanks,
Sean
It does have a single \; the printing just shows that it is escaped. If you 'cat' it to output, you will see:> gsub("'","\\\\'","abc's")[1] "abc\\'s"> cat(gsub("'","\\\\'","abc's"))abc\'s Which I think is what you were thinking it would be. So when you write it out to a file, it will be correct. On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 11:49 AM, Sean Davis <sdavis2 at mail.nih.gov> wrote:> This is hopefully a simple question. I am trying to escape single > quotes like so: > > abc's >> abc\'s > > However, I cannot find an easy way to do that with gsub: > > gsub("'","\\\\'","abc's") > # returns "abc\\'s" > > How can I get a single \ in the output? > > Thanks, > Sean > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >-- Jim Holtman Cincinnati, OH +1 513 646 9390 What is the problem you are trying to solve?
On 09-Jul-08 15:49:54, Sean Davis wrote:> This is hopefully a simple question. I am trying to escape single > quotes like so: > > abc's >> abc\'s > > However, I cannot find an easy way to do that with gsub: > > gsub("'","\\\\'","abc's") ># returns "abc\\'s" > > How can I get a single \ in the output? > > Thanks, > SeanIn terms of the internal representation, I think you have in fact got what you want. It's just that when it's prented on the screen, the internal "\" is printed as "\\": nchar("abc\\'s") # [1] 6 nchar("abc's") # [1] 5 Quite how you get it to be displayed as "abc\'s" is another matter, and I don't have an answer to it! Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding at manchester.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 09-Jul-08 Time: 17:06:40 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------