gsub pattern value to represent the hat sign
r, regex
Solution
You need to escape `^` because it is a regex metacharacter (as @Roman notes in comment)
gsub("\\^","","^GSPC")
Problem
Quick question for those that know the answer....what is the regex pattern that represents the "^" (the hat sign)? so that I can remove it when doing the following? ``` gsub("^","","^GSPC") ``` i.e. the output of the above is not `GSPC` as would be expected...