search_lexicon: Search lexicon entries
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search_lexicon

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Search lexicon entries

Description

Search entries in the lexicon, by entry form or sense definitions.

Usage

search_lexicon(
  lexadb,
  entry = NULL,
  whole = TRUE,
  definition = NULL,
  pos = NULL
)

Arguments

`lexadb`	A `lexadb` object (created with `load_lexadb`).
`entry`	A regular expression to search among entries.
`whole`	Whether to search for whole words (only applies to `entry`, `TRUE` by default).
`definition`	A regular expression to search among sense definitions.
`pos`	A regular expression to match the part of speech.

Value

A list of lexalx objects.

Examples

db_path <- system.file("extdata/eleryon_lexadb", package = "lexa")
eleryon <- load_lexadb(db_path)

# Search for "chǭs"
search_lexicon(eleryon, "chǭs")

# Search for all verbs
search_lexicon(eleryon, ".*", pos = "verb")

# Search for entry with meaning "love"
search_lexicon(eleryon, definition = "love")

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