str_detect_multi: Detect the presence or absence of multiple patterns in a...

In geotheory/textools: Tools to facilitate text analysis and NLP

Description

A wrapper for stringr::str_detect to enable vectorised search against multiple terms, with regex and case_ignore applied by default

Usage

str_detect_multi(strings, patterns, ignore_case = TRUE, regex = TRUE)

Arguments

strings	A string or character vector of strings to query patterns against
patterns	A string or character vector of patterns to query against strings
ignore_case	Should case differences be ignored in the match?
regex	Whether patterns are regex or fixed (activates stringr::regex or stringr::fixed)

Value

A logical value or vector

Author(s)

Robin Edwards

Examples

x = rownames(mtcars)
x[str_detect_multi(x, c('merc','honda'))]

require(dplyr)
starwars %>% filter(str_detect_multi(name, c('sky','darth')))

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