Escapes any characters that would have special meaning in a reqular expression.
Escapes any characters that would have special meaning in a reqular expression.
escapeRegex(string) escapeBS(string)
string |
string being operated on. |
escapeRegex will escape any characters that would have
special meaning in a reqular expression. For any string
grep(regexpEscape(string), string) will always be true.
escapeBS will escape any backslash \ in a string.
The value of the string with any characters that would have special meaning in a reqular expression escaped.
Charles Dupont
Department of Biostatistics
Vanderbilt University
string <- "this\\(system) {is} [full]."
escapeRegex(string)
escapeBS(string)Please choose more modern alternatives, such as Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox.