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str_extract_date: Extract date from string

Description

Extract date from string

Usage

str_extract_date(x, format = "%Y-%m-%d")

str_extract_datetime(x, format = "%Y-%m-%d %H%M%S")

Value

A Date (if found) or NA

Arguments

x

A character vector

format

A date format to find

Examples

Run this code
str_extract_date("This is a file name 2020-02-21.csv")
str_extract_date(c("This is a file name 2020-02-21.csv",
                   "Date of 2012-06-15 here"))
str_extract_date(c("This is a file name 2020-02-21.csv", "No date"))
str_extract_date("Last saved 17 December 2019", format = "%d %B %Y")

str_extract_datetime(c("2020-02-21 235033", "2012-12-12 121212"))
str_extract_datetime("This is a file name 2020-02-21 235033.csv")

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