regex: regex

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Description

Creates or modifies the search type to use regular expression matching

Usage

regex(object, ...)

## Default S3 method:
regex(object, ...)

## S3 method for class 'character'
regex(object, ...)

## S3 method for class 'SearchableOrPattern'
regex(object, ...)

Arguments

object	to make specification
...	additional arguments passes to pattern regex

See Also

pattern

Examples

pat <- regex("a.+")
  detect( c('alpha','beta'), pat )

Example output

[1]  TRUE FALSE

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