rmg_has_two_distinct_puncts_inside: Rule P: punctuation characters in a string

In benmarwick/rmgarbage: Automatic garbage extraction from OCR'd text

Description

Strip off the first and last characters of a string. If there are two distinct punctuation characters in the result, then the string is garbage. Stripping off the last two characters as false positives includes those ending with ').' and similar.

Usage

rmg_has_two_distinct_puncts_inside(x, last_n = 2)

Arguments

x	a character vector
last_n	numeric, number of final characters to strip

Value

Logical

Examples

garbage_string_2p1 <- "'hi!cou?cou,"
garbage_string_2p2 <-  "jean-marc,"

rmg_has_two_distinct_puncts_inside(garbage_string_2p1) # TRUE
rmg_has_two_distinct_puncts_inside(garbage_string_2p2) # FALSE

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