match_word: Regular Expression Matching of Words in a Text

In trinker/termco: Counts of Terms and Substrings

Description

Extract the words from a text that match a regular expression.

Usage

match_word(text.var, term.list, ...)

Arguments

text.var	The text string variable.
term.list	A list of named character vectors.
...	ignored.

Value

Returns a list of matched word vectors.

Examples

match_word(
    text.var = c(
        'the dog is todo them funny',
        'I\'d wait to eat the sandwich.',
        'the dog ate the sandwiches'
    ),
    term.list = c('the', 'sandwich', 'do', '^do', '\\bdo', 'do$')
)

match_word(
    text.var = c(
        'the dog is todo them funny',
        'I\'d wait to eat the sandwich.',
        'the dog ate the sandwiches'
    ),
    term.list = list(
        'the',
        'sandwich',
        'do',
        '^do',
        '\\bdo',
        'do$',
        '\\b(eat|ate)\\b'
    )
)

trinker/termco documentation built on Jan. 7, 2022, 3:32 a.m.