mgetnames: Get names by string matching multiple patterns

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Get names by string matching multiple patterns

Description

Get names by string matching multiple patterns

Usage

mgetnames(
  x,
  pattern = NULL,
  starts_with = NULL,
  ends_with = NULL,
  ignore_case = TRUE,
  return_index = FALSE
)

Arguments

x	Character vector or object with names() method.
pattern	Character vector: pattern(s) to match anywhere in names of x.
starts_with	Character: pattern to match in the beginning of names of x.
ends_with	Character: pattern to match at the end of names of x.
ignore_case	Logical: If TRUE, well, ignore case.
return_index	Logical: If TRUE, return integer index of matches instead of names.

Details

pattern, starts_with, and ends_with are applied and the union of all matches is returned. pattern can be a character vector of multiple patterns to match.

Value

Character vector of matched names or integer index.

Author(s)

EDG

Examples

mgetnames(iris, pattern = c("Sepal", "Petal"))
mgetnames(iris, starts_with = "Sepal")
mgetnames(iris, ends_with = "Width")

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