formatoR2regex: Convert FormatoR to regex.

In david-salgado/fastReadfwf: Fast read of fwf files with arbitrary input schema

Description

formatoR2regex cnverts FormatoR to regex. FormatoR is a specification for a fwf schema according to an internal standard in the Spanish National Statistics Institute (2020).

This standard specifies character, integer and float types by the letters A, I and F, respectively. The width of the string is specified with a number. In the case of float numbers, .d specifies the number of decimal digits after the decimal point. See example below

Usage

formatoR2regex(formatoR)

Arguments

formatoR

character vector with the formatoR specification for the string widths.

Value

Return a character vector with regular expressions for each component of the input vector.

Examples

formatoR <- c('A2', 'I5', 'F5.2')
formatoR2regex(formatoR)

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