pmatch2: Value matching or partial matching

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Value matching or partial matching

Description

pmatch2 returns a list of the positions of matches or partial matches of x in table.

This does sloppy matching to find "Peter" to match "Pete" only if "Pete" is not in table, and we want "John Peter" if neither "Pete" nor "Peter" are in table.

Usage

pmatch2(x, table)

Arguments

x	the values to be matched
table	the values to be matched against

Details

1. nx <- length(x); out <- vector(nx, "list"); names(out) <- x

2. for(ix in seq(length=nx)): 3. xi <- which(x[ix] %in% table)

4. if(length(xi)<1) xi <- grep(paste0('^', x[ix]), table).

5. if(length(xi)<1)xi <- grep(x[ix], table).

6. out[[ix]] <- xi

Value

A list of integer vectors indicating the positions in table matching each element of x

Author(s)

Spencer Graves

See Also

match pmatch grep matchName

Examples

##
## 1.  common examples 
##
x2match <- c('Pete', 'Peter', 'Ma', 'Mo', 'Paul', 
             'Cardenas')

tbl <- c('Peter', 'Mary', 'Martha', 'John Paul', 'Peter', 
         'Cardenas', 'Cardenas') 

x2mtchd <- pmatch2(x2match, tbl) 

# answer
x2mtchd. <- list(Pete=c(1, 5), Peter=c(1, 5), Ma=2:3, 
    Mo=integer(0), Paul=4, Cardenas=6:7)

all.equal(x2mtchd, x2mtchd.)

##
## 2.  strange cases that caused errors and are now warnings
##
huh <- pmatch2("(7", tbl)

# answer 
huh. <- list("(7"=integer(0))

all.equal(huh, huh.)

Ecfun documentation built on Aug. 25, 2025, 9:51 a.m.