parseText: Parse text in character vector into individual elements by...

In wStockhausen/wtsUtilities: Collection of miscellaneous utility functions developed by William Stockhausen

Parse text in character vector into individual elements by quotes and whitespace, keeping quoted text together in same element (with whitespace but without quotation marks)

Description

Function to parse text in character vector into individual elements by quotes and whitespace, keeping quoted text together in same element (with whitespace but without quotation marks).

Usage

parseText(
  strv,
  qt = "'",
  keepQuotes = FALSE,
  stripComments = TRUE,
  comment = "#",
  verbose = FALSE
)

Arguments

strv	character vector to parse
qt	the character indicating quotation (' or ")
keepQuotes	flag to keep the quotation marks in the output (does nothing)
stripComments	flag to remove comments prior to parsing
comment	character used to indicate the start of a comment
verbose	flag (T/F) to print diagnostic info

Details

Each element in the returned list is a character vector whose elements consist of

1. quoted text blocks and 2) unquoted text elements split by white space in the order they occur in the element of the character vector.

Value

numbered list, with elements corresponding to the equivalent vector element in strv AFTER comments have been removed.

wStockhausen/wtsUtilities documentation built on March 16, 2024, 10:38 a.m.