extract_glottocode: Extract glottocode substrings

In erichround/glottoTrees: Phylogenetic Trees in Linguistics

Extract glottocode substrings

Description

From a character vector, extracts the first glottocode from each element.

Usage

extract_glottocode(label)

Arguments

label

A string

Details

Glottocodes comprise four lowercase letters (or b10b or 3adt) followed by four numbers, and are only identified if they are initial in the string or are preceded by <.

Also recognizes and retains duplicate suffixes, i.e., a hyphen followed by one or more numerals at the end of the string (see apply_duplicate_suffixes).

Value

A string

Examples

extract_glottocode("DongoKresh<dong1296>-l-")
extract_glottocode(c("DongoKresh<dong1296>-l-", "Goro-Golo<orlo1238>"))

# Duplicate suffixes are recognised and retained
extract_glottocode(c("Goro-Golo<orlo1238>-1", "Goro-Golo<orlo1238>-2"))

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