[R] grep with "|" character

[Daniel Brewer]

Hi,

I am having a problem searching for the "|" character in a string.

> grep("|",stringvector)
Gives all the strings in a vector but when I try to escape it
> grep("\|",stringvector)
It comes up with the error
Warning messages:
1: '\|' is an unrecognized escape in a character string
2: unrecognized escape removed from "\|"


Anyone know how to solve this?

Dan

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