[R] gsub pattern?

[Peter Dalgaard]

Christian Schulz <ozric at web.de> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> search in web for regular expressions i get the information that
> the line  below replace all  AUTO string's like AUTOBAHN
> ,AUTORENNEN  with 1 but nothing happend.
> Using the [] in the pattern it works like i'm expected, but i didn't
> want single character replacment. Where is my mistake?
> 
> bcode <- gsub("/^AUTO.*/","1",MyStringVector,ignore.case=T,extended=T)

What are the "/"-es for?

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