re_escape {re} | R Documentation |
Escape special characters
Description
re_escape
escapes all special characters in a string. This function is useful when you want to treat a
string literally in a regular expression context, escaping characters that would otherwise be interpreted as special
regex operators.
Usage
re_escape(pattern)
Arguments
pattern |
A character vector where each element is a string in which special regex characters are to be escaped. |
Value
A character vector of the same length as pattern
.
See Also
Python re.escape() documentation
Examples
re_escape("a[bc].*d?")
re_escape(".^$|*+?{}[]()")
[Package re version 0.1.0 Index]