field_format: Check whether a field conforms to a regular expression

In validate: Data Validation Infrastructure

Check whether a field conforms to a regular expression

Description

A convenience wrapper around grepl to make rule sets more readable.

Usage

field_format(x, pattern, type = c("glob", "regex"), ...)

Arguments

x	Bare (unquoted) name of a variable. Otherwise a vector of class character. Coerced to character as necessary.
pattern	[character] a regular expression
type	[character] How to interpret pattern. In globbing, the asterisk (‘*') is used as a wildcard that stands for ’zero or more characters'.
...	passed to grepl

See Also

Other format-checkers: field_length(), number_format()

validate documentation built on March 31, 2023, 6:27 p.m.