omics (version 0.1-5)

re.match: Pattern Matching and Extraction

Description

Matches and extracts substrings using regular expressions.

Usage

re.match(pattern, x, ...)

Arguments

pattern

character string containing a regular expression.

x

a character vector where matches are sought, or an object which can be coerced by as.character to a character vector.

...

further arguments to be passed to regexec.

Value

A matrix of matched substrings.

Details

This function is a wrapper for consecutive calls to regexec and regmatches.

See Also

regexec and regmatches