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textutils (version 0.4-1)

rmrp: Remove Repeated Pattern

Description

Remove a repeated pattern in a character vector.

Usage

rmrp(s, pattern, ...)

Value

a character vector

Arguments

s

a character vector

pattern

a regular expression

...

arguments passed to grep

Author

Enrico Schumann

Details

rmrp removes a repeated pattern in a character vector (e.g. repeated blank lines).

See Also

Examples

Run this code
## remove repeated blanks from vector
s <- c("* Header", "", "  ","", "** Subheader")
rmrp(s, "^ *$")

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