Re: Special characters in patterns: what about \?
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- Subject: Re: Special characters in patterns: what about \?
- From: "Mauro Iazzi" <mauro.iazzi@...>
- Date: 2007年6月27日 17:14:12 +0200
The backslash is still considered escape at string constructor level.
It is discarded before it arrives to gsub. Then gsub does not even
know it was there and interprets the ^ as negating next char (it needs
at least one). Anytime you want a backslash in a string just insert it
twice.