R: Escape regular expression special characters

ore.escape {ore} | R Documentation

## Escape regular expression special characters

### Description

Escape characters that would usually be interpreted specially in a regular expression, returning a modified version of the argument. This can be useful when incorporating a general-purpose string into a larger regex.

### Usage

    ore.escape(text)

### Arguments

`text` | A character vector.

### Value

A modified version of the argument, with special characters escaped by prefixing them with a backslash.

### See Also

`ore`

[Package ore version 1.6.0 Index]