[R] Regex for Special Characters under Grep

[Gundala Viswanath]

Hi all,

I am trying to capture lines of a file that DO NOT
start with the following header: !, #, ^

But somehow my regex used under grep doesn't
work.

Please advice what's wrong with my code below.

__BEGIN__
in_fname <- paste("mydata.txt,".soft",sep="")
data_for_R <- paste("data_for_R/", args[3], ".softR", sep="")

# my regex construction
cat(temp[-grep("^[\^\!\#]",temp,perl=TRUE)], file=data_for_R, sep="\n")


dat <- read.table(data_for_R)
___END__



- Gundala Viswanath
Jakarta - Indonesia