var_args_list: var args list

In nc: Named Capture to Data Tables

var args list

Description

Parse the variable-length argument list used in capture_first_vec, capture_first_df, and capture_all_str. This function is mostly intended for internal use, but is useful if you want to see the regex pattern generated by the variable argument syntax.

Usage

var_args_list(...)

Arguments

...

character vectors (for regex patterns) or functions (which specify how to convert extracted character vectors to other types). All patterns must be character vectors of length 1. If the pattern is a named argument in R, it becomes a capture group in the regex pattern. All patterns are pasted together to obtain the final pattern used for matching. Each named pattern may be followed by at most one function which is used to convert the previous named pattern. Patterns may also be lists, which are parsed recursively for convenience.

Value

a list with two named elements

fun.list	list of conversion functions with names corresponding to capture group(s)
pattern	regular expression string with capture group(s)

Author(s)

Toby Dylan Hocking

Examples

pos.pattern <- list("[0-9]+", as.integer)
nc::var_args_list(
  chrom="chr.*?",
  ":",
  chromStart=pos.pattern,
  list(
    "-",
    chromEnd=pos.pattern
  ), "?")

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