[R] Doubt about pattern

[Paul Lemmens]

Hoi Marcelo,

--On donderdag 29 januari 2004 11:33 -0300 Marcelo Luiz de Laia 
<mlaia at fcav.unesp.br> wrote:
>
> files <- dir(pattern="*.sens")
>
> but it includes all of the files that have "sens", independent of they be
> in the end or in the middle of the name of the file.
>
That's because your pattern is a regular expression and not a Windows/DOS 
wildcard. You'll need something like

files <- dir(pattern="\.sens$")

\. matches the dot itself (without the slash it's a wildcard for any 
character) and the dollar sign $ matches the end of the filename. So this 
way you'll get every file that has 'sens' as its extension


regards,
Paul




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