removing everything after first 'backslash' in a string

Question

I have a vector like below

vec <- c(\"abc\\edw\\www\", \"nmn\\ggg\", \"rer\\qqq\\fdf\"......)

I want to remove everything after as soon

Answer 1

strssplit(vec, "\\\\") should do the job.

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