parseRange: Parse range string

In SWS-Methodology/faoswsUtil: A suite of function to support the FAO new Statistical Working System

Description

As with printer page ranges, sometimes you need to process a range. This is usually of years. A user may specify that they want 2000, 2002 and 2005-2008.

Usage

parseRange(range, sep = ", *", rsep = " *- *")

Arguments

range	character. By default, a character vector with dashes to delineate ranges and commas to separate them
sep	character Regular expression to for range separator
rsep	character Regular expression for range delineator

Value

character vector of numbers

Examples

parseRange("5, 7-9, 11")
# [1] "5"  "7"  "8"  "9"  "11"

parseRange("2*3;0", sep = "; *", rsep = "\\* *")
# [1] "2" "3" "0"

SWS-Methodology/faoswsUtil documentation built on May 9, 2019, 11:53 a.m.