Add backslashes before any metacharacters found in a string.
Usage
protectMetachar(x)
Arguments
x
character vector
Value
A character vector of the same length as x in which two backslashes have been inserted before any metacharacter.
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.
See Also
An overview of LIMMA functions for reading data is given in 03.ReadingData.