find_first_match: Find first matching candidate

In cbaumbach/miscFun: Miscellaneous functions

Description

Find first matching candidate

Usage

find_first_match(candidates, x, ...)

Arguments

candidates	Character vector of candidates to be matched against ‘x’
x	Character vector
...	Further arguments passed on to grepl

Value

#' Index of the element of ‘candidates’ that matches the element of ‘x’ with the smallest index. In case of ties, the smallest of the tied indexes is returned. If none of the candidates match any of the elements in ‘x’, NA is returned.

Examples

find_first_match(c("foo", "bar", "baz", "quux"), c("baz", "quux", "bar"))

cbaumbach/miscFun documentation built on May 13, 2019, 1:48 p.m.