match_vector: Generate a Regular Expression for Finding Any of a Vector of...
In mariolaespinosa/historicalnetworks: Mapping Historical Citation Networks

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View source: R/match_vector.R

Generate a Regular Expression for Finding Any of a Vector of Patterns

1	match_vector(pattern)

pattern

A character vector containing a series of words or stringi-search-regexs, any one of which is sufficient for a match

match_vector is a convenience function that creates a regular expression pattern for finding any of a vector of words (or other regular expression patterns)

A regular expression pattern

colors <- c("red", "blue", "yellow")
sentences <- c("The car parked by their house was red",
               "The yellow cat enjoys the sun atop the car's roof",
               "The blue city bus passed right by the stopped car")
stringr::str_detect(sentences, match_vector(colors))