match_filenames: Match a set of regular expressions to a list of files

In adokter/birdRad: Biological Analysis and Visualization of Weather Radar Data

Match a set of regular expressions to a list of files

Description

Match a set of regular expressions to a list of files and return those filenames that comply to any of the provided regular expressions. This function basically wraps a grep to make it work on vectors by combining the vector of regex options as possible options.

Usage

match_filenames(file_list, regex_list)

Arguments

file_list	character vector. Haystack of filenames/filepaths.
regex_list	character vector. Needle of regular expressions to which filenames should comply.

Value

character vector. Subset of filenames from the file_list that comply to the provided regular expressions in regex_list.

adokter/birdRad documentation built on Nov. 5, 2024, 10:27 p.m.