find.match: Find a Partial or Exact Match from a Vector of Strings...
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Find a Partial or Exact Match from a Vector of Strings Searches a vector of character-string, and returns the best match.

1	find.match(needle, haystack, fail = NA)

`needle`	a character-string to search for in the
`haystack`	a vector of character-strings
`fail`	the value to return in case no match is found. Defaults to NA

“find.match” attempts to use several common matching functions in an order that sequentially prefers less strict matching, until a suitable match is found. If none is found, then return the value of the “fail” parameter (defaults to NA). The functions used for matching are: “match”, “charmatch”, and finally “grep”.

the best-matched string or NA

Matt Owen mowen@iq.harvard.edu

IQSS/Zelig4 documentation built on May 9, 2019, 9:13 a.m.