Escape a regular expression — escapeRegex • Crunch

This function takes a string and escapes all of the special characters in the string. For example, the . in VB.NET will be escaped with a slash (though regular R printing will make it look like there are two slashes).

escapeRegex(string)

Arguments

string: A regular expression to escape

Value

string, escaped.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
escapeRegex("Tom&Jerry")
escapeRegex(".Net")
} # }