stringr (version 0.6.2)

str_match_all: Extract all matched groups from a string.

Description

Vectorised over string. pattern should be a single pattern, i.e. a character vector of length one.

Usage

str_match_all(string, pattern)

Arguments

pattern

pattern to look for, as defined by a POSIX regular expression. Pattern should contain groups, defined by (). See the ``Extended Regular Expressions'' section of regex for details.

string

input vector. This must be an atomic vector, and will be coerced to a character vector

Value

• list of character matrices, as given by str_match

Examples

strings <- c("Home: 219 733 8965.  Work: 229-293-8753 ",
  "banana pear apple", "595 794 7569 / 387 287 6718")
phone <- "([2-9][0-9]{2})[- .]([0-9]{3})[- .]([0-9]{4})"

str_extract_all(strings, phone)
str_match_all(strings, phone)