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protectMetachar

Protect Metacharacters

Description

Add backslashes before any metacharacters found in a string.

Usage

protectMetachar(x)

Arguments

x

character vector

Details

This function is used to protect strings containing metacharacters so that the metacharacters can be treated as ordinary characters in string matching functions operations.

Value

A character vector of the same length as x in which two backslashes have been inserted before any metacharacter.

Author(s)

Gordon Smyth

See Also

An overview of LIMMA functions for reading data is given in 03.ReadingData.

Examples

# without protectMetachar, this would be no match
grep(protectMetachar("Ch1 (mean)"),"Ch1 (mean)")
limma

Linear Models for Microarray Data

v3.46.0
GPL (>=2)
Authors
Gordon Smyth [cre,aut], Yifang Hu [ctb], Matthew Ritchie [ctb], Jeremy Silver [ctb], James Wettenhall [ctb], Davis McCarthy [ctb], Di Wu [ctb], Wei Shi [ctb], Belinda Phipson [ctb], Aaron Lun [ctb], Natalie Thorne [ctb], Alicia Oshlack [ctb], Carolyn de Graaf [ctb], Yunshun Chen [ctb], Mette Langaas [ctb], Egil Ferkingstad [ctb], Marcus Davy [ctb], Francois Pepin [ctb], Dongseok Choi [ctb]
Initial release
2020-10-19

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