getWord: Extract a Specific Word from a Text String or List of Text...

In Epiconcept-Paris/STRAP-epiuf: Epiconcept Team Utility Functions for STRAP Project

Extract a Specific Word from a Text String or List of Text Strings

Description

This function takes a text string or a list of text strings and extracts a specific word based on its position, using a given pattern to split the text into words.

Usage

getWord(tosearch, item = 1, pattern = "\\W+")

Arguments

tosearch	The text string or list of text strings from which to extract the word.
item	The position of the word to extract (1-based index). Default is 1.
pattern	The pattern used to split the text string into words. Default is "\W+" (one or more non-word characters).

Value

A character string containing the extracted word if tosearch is a single string, or a list of extracted words if tosearch is a list of strings.

Examples

getWord("aaa  bb,cc.",3)
getWord("aaa-bb-cc",2,pattern="-")

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