string_extract: Replace matching patterns in a string

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string_extractR Documentation

Replace matching patterns in a string

Description

Vectorised extraction of matching patterns using Perl-compatible regular expressions.

Usage

string_extract(string, pattern)

string_extract_all(string, pattern, simplify = FALSE)

Arguments

string

A character vector.

pattern

A pattern to look for.

simplify

If FALSE, the default, returns a list of character vectors. If TRUE, returns a character vector. Only applies to string_replace_all.

Value

A character vector.

A character vector.

Examples

fables <- c("La cigale et la fourmi", "Le chĂȘne et le roseau")
string_extract(fables, "\\b(?i:la|le)")

string_extract_all(fables, "\\pL{3,}")

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