str_detect2: Detect the presence/absence of a match

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Detect the presence/absence of a match

Description

Vectorised over string and pattern. Actually equivalent to grepl(pattern, x) as returns FALSE for NAs (unlike stringr::str_detect()). This behavior is useful when searching comments many of which are NA to indicate no comments present.

Usage

str_detect2(string, pattern, negate = FALSE)

Arguments

string	Input vector. Either a character vector, or something coercible to one.
pattern	Pattern to look for. The default interpretation is a regular expression, as described in vignette("regular-expressions"). Use regex() for finer control of the matching behaviour. Match a fixed string (i.e. by comparing only bytes), using fixed(). This is fast, but approximate. Generally, for matching human text, you'll want coll() which respects character matching rules for the specified locale. Match character, word, line and sentence boundaries with boundary(). An empty pattern, "", is equivalent to boundary("character").
negate	If TRUE, inverts the resulting boolean vector.

Value

A logical vector the same length as string/pattern.

See Also

grepl() and stringr::str_detect()

Examples

x <- c("b", NA, "ab")
pattern <- "^a"
grepl(pattern, x)
stringr::str_detect(x, pattern)
str_detect2(x, pattern)

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