miscset (version 1.0.0)

strextr: Extract a Substring

Description

This function extracts substring(s) which match a given pattern.

Usage

strextr(x, pattern, sep = " ", mult = F, unlist = F, cores = 1)

Arguments

x

Character vector.

pattern

Regular expression.

sep

Character string which separates the fields.

mult

Logical, if multiple matching fields should be returned, or otherwise NA.

unlist

Logical, unlists multiple results.

cores

Integer for number of computational cores to use.

Value

A list of character vectors containing the substrings that are matching pattern and are separated by sep or NA if the pattern could not be found.

Examples

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s <- c("A1 B1 C1","A2 B2", "AA A1", "AA", "B1 A1", "BB AB A1")
strextr(s, "^[AB][[:digit:]]$")
strextr(s, "^[AB][[:digit:]]$", mult = TRUE)
strextr(s, "^[AB][[:digit:]]$", mult = TRUE, unlist = TRUE)
strextr(s, "^[C][[:digit:]]$")

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