strMatchAll: Extract components from all matches

In acidgenomics/AcidBase: Acid Genomics Base Functions

Extract components from all matches

Description

Uses gregexec() and regmatches() internally.

Usage

strMatchAll(x, pattern, fixed = FALSE)

Arguments

x	character. Character vector. NA values are allowed.
pattern	character(1). Regular expression pattern. Evalutes with gregexec() internally.
fixed	logical(1). If TRUE, pattern is a string to be matched as is. Otherwise, will match by regular expression.

Details

Expands with NA values for match failures, like stringi and stringr.

Value

list. List of character matrix of match groups.

Note

Updated 2023-09-25.

See Also

• gregexec(), regmatches(), gregexpr().

• stringi::stri_match_all().

• stringr::str_match_all().

• https://stringr.tidyverse.org/articles/from-base.html

Examples

## Regex match.
object <- strMatchAll(
    x = c("a-b", "c-d", "e_f", NA),
    pattern = "^(.+)-(.+)$",
    fixed = FALSE
)
print(object)

## Fixed match.
object <- strMatchAll(
    x = c("a", "aa", "b", "bb"),
    pattern = "a",
    fixed = TRUE
)
print(object)

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