view.md
In stringr: Simple, Consistent Wrappers for Common String Operations

results are truncated

Code
  str_view(words)
Output
   [1] | a
   [2] | able
   [3] | about
   [4] | absolute
   [5] | accept
   [6] | account
   [7] | achieve
   [8] | across
   [9] | act
  [10] | active
  [11] | actual
  [12] | add
  [13] | address
  [14] | admit
  [15] | advertise
  [16] | affect
  [17] | afford
  [18] | after
  [19] | afternoon
  [20] | again
  ... and 960 more

Code
  str_view(words)
Output
  [1] | a
  [2] | able
  [3] | about
  [4] | absolute
  [5] | accept
  ... and 975 more

indices come from original vector

Code
  str_view(letters, "a|z", match = TRUE)
Output
   [1] | <a>
  [26] | <z>

view highlights all matches

Code
  str_view(x, "[aeiou]")
Output
  [1] | <a>bc
  [2] | d<e>f
Code
  str_view(x, "d|e")
Output
  [2] | <d><e>f

view highlights whitespace (except a space/nl)

Code
  str_view(x)
Output
  [1] |  
  [2] | {\u00a0}
  [3] | 
      | 
  [4] | {\t}
Code
  # or can instead use escapes
  str_view(x, use_escapes = TRUE)
Output
  [1] |  
  [2] | \u00a0
  [3] | \n
  [4] | \t

view displays nothing for empty vectors

Code
  str_view(character())

can match across lines

Code
  str_view("a\nb\nbbb\nc", "(b|\n)+")
Output
  [90m[1] |[39m a[36m<[39m
      [90m|[39m [36mb[39m
      [90m|[39m [36mbbb[39m
      [90m|[39m [36m>[39mc

str_view_all() is deprecated

Code
  str_view_all("abc", "a|b")
Condition
  Warning:
  `str_view_all()` was deprecated in stringr 1.5.0.
  i Please use `str_view()` instead.
Output
  [1] | <a><b>c

html mode continues to work

Code
  str_view(x, "[aeiou]", html = TRUE)$x$html
Output
  <ul>
    <li><pre><span class='match'>a</span>bc</pre></li>
    <li><pre>d<span class='match'>e</span>f</pre></li>
  </ul>
Code
  str_view(x, "d|e", html = TRUE)$x$html
Output
  <ul>
    <li><pre><span class='match'>d</span><span class='match'>e</span>f</pre></li>
  </ul>

Code
  str_view(x, html = TRUE, use_escapes = TRUE)$x$html
Output
  <ul>
    <li><pre> </pre></li>
    <li><pre>\u00a0</pre></li>
    <li><pre>\n</pre></li>
  </ul>