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CaseebRamos
CaseebRamos

Reputation: 684

How to substitute "U+...." with "\U000...." from a character in R?

I have this character:

u<- "U+1F37A"
# output needed is "\U0001F37A"

So I used the gsub() function like this-

v <- gsub("U\\+", "\\u000", u, fixed= F)
# however I am keep getting "U0001F37A" without "\" in front
# OR
# an error Error: nul character not allowed (line 1)

I have looked around Stack and there were couple of questions removing "\U000.." not inserting. Try to "reverse engineer" a bit, but I failed.

I have also read this http://uc-r.github.io/regex but no luck.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 210

Answers (1)

akrun
akrun

Reputation: 887128

We can use double escape

u1 <- sub("U\\+", "\\\\U000", u)
cat(u1, sep="\n")
#\U0001F37A

Upvotes: 1

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