align_char: Align character strings

In AkselA/R-ymse: Ymse (Various)

Description

Align character strings

Usage

align_char(x, pattern = ".", ..., lpad = " ", rpad = " ")

Arguments

x	numeric or character vector
pattern	pattern, passed to regexpr, whose match the character strings will be aligned by
...	further arguments passed to regexpr
lpad, rpad	character strings used for padding. Repeated to length

See Also

align_num, for alignment more aimed at numeric strings

Examples

x <- c("Tom und Jerry", "Abbott og Costello", "Milo och Stich", "et alii")
cat(align_char(x, pat="[[:alpha:]]"), sep="\n")
cat(align_char(x, pat=" "), sep="\n")
cat(align_char(x, pat=" [A-Z]"), sep="\n")
cat(align_char(x, pat=" [a-z]"), sep="\n")
cat(align_char(x, pat="t", ignore.case=TRUE), sep="\n")
cat(align_char(x, pat="x"), sep="\n")

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