Message-ID: <537799.1625722603@apollo2.minshall.org>
Date: 2021-07-08T05:36:43Z
From: Greg Minshall
Subject: problem for strsplit function
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 07 Jul 2021 20:02:48 -0700." <F7085740-6A14-4686-8179-D8DB8536EB11@dcn.davis.ca.us>
> sub( "\\.[^.]*$", "", fname )
fwiw, i almost always use '[.]' in preference to '\\\\\\\\.', as it
seems to be more likely to get through the various levels of quoting in
different contexts.