grepMulti: Multiple pattern matching.

In EncoredTechR/baseEncored: Base R packages for Encored Technologies

Description

grepMulti matches pattern, in this case a user name(s)/appliance(s), to a character vector x of all users/appliances, respectively.

Usage

grepMulti(pattern, x)

Arguments

pattern	a character string to be matched in the given character vector.
x	a character vector to be matched to.

Value

grepMulti returns a vector of the indices of x that matched with the elements of pattern.

See Also

grepMetaData: searches meta data given a targeted user and/or appliance and returns the selected row of data.
searchMetaData

Examples

user.name <- c('David')
appliance.name <- c('Fridge')
user.list <- c('Kanye', 'David', 'John')
appliance.list <- c('AirWasher', 'Fridge', 'MicroOven', 'Fridge')

grepMulti(user.name, user.list) # 2
grepMulti(appliance.name, appliance.list) # 2 4

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