R语言学习 | 想要用分隔符“|”分割字符，却出错？问题在哪里？

"|"符号在正则表达式中可以表示为“或”的含义，因此当字符串中出现该字符，而我们还想要用该字符进行分隔时，需要注意使用转义字符，且为两个斜杠。\\

gene<-str_split_fixed(gene_name,"\\|",n=2)
gene
         [,1]              [,2]                          
    [1,] "ENSG00000000003" "TSPAN6"                      
    [2,] "ENSG00000000005" "TNMD"                        
    [3,] "ENSG00000000419" "DPM1"                        
    [4,] "ENSG00000000457" "SCYL3"                       
    [5,] "ENSG00000000460" "C1ORF112"                    
    [6,] "ENSG00000000938" "FGR"         

如果使用不加转义字符，那么得到的结果又会是什么样呢？——默认全部分开。

gene<-str_split(gene_name,"|")
head(gene)

[[1]]
 [1] ""  "E" "N" "S" "G" "0" "0" "0" "0" "0" "0" "0" "0" "0" "0" "3" "|" "T" "S" "P" "A" "N"
[23] "6" "" 

[[2]]
 [1] ""  "E" "N" "S" "G" "0" "0" "0" "0" "0" "0" "0" "0" "0" "0" "5" "|" "T" "N" "M" "D" "" 

注意，其他有特殊意义的字符，如“？”、“*”、“$”等，当做分隔符时，也同理这样使用。