process_tag: Process a GEDCOM Tag

In BGmisc: An R Package for Extended Behavior Genetics Analysis

Process a GEDCOM Tag

Description

Extracts and assigns a value to a specified field in 'vars' if the pattern is present. Returns both the updated variable list and a flag indicating whether the tag was matched.

Usage

process_tag(
  tag,
  field_name,
  pattern_rows,
  line,
  vars,
  extractor = NULL,
  mode = "replace"
)

Arguments

tag	The GEDCOM tag (e.g., "SEX", "CAST", etc.).
field_name	The name of the variable to assign to in 'vars'.
pattern_rows	Output from 'countPatternRows()'.
line	The GEDCOM line to parse.
vars	The current list of variables to update.

Value

A list with updated 'vars' and a 'matched' flag.

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