Escape regular expression metacharacters — str

This function escapes metacharacter, the characters that have special meaning to the regular expression engine. In most cases you are better off using fixed() since it is faster, but str_escape() is useful if you are composing user provided strings into a pattern.

str_escape(string)

Arguments

string: Input vector. Either a character vector, or something coercible to one.

Value

A character vector the same length as string.

Examples

str_detect(c("a", "."), ".")
#> [1] TRUE TRUE
str_detect(c("a", "."), str_escape("."))
#> [1] FALSE  TRUE