str_diff: Finding Differences Between Strings

In pkgmaker: Package development utilities

Description

Computes which characters differ between two strings.

Usage

  str_diff(x, y)

Arguments

x	a single string
y	a single string

Value

an integer vector containing the index of all mis-matched characters in the first string.

Examples

# strings to compare
x <- "once upon a time"
y <- "once upon a time there was"
z <- "once upon two times"

# diff: x - y
d <- str_diff(x, y)
d
str(d)

# other comparisons
str_diff(y, x)
str_diff(x, x)
str_diff(x, z)
str_diff(y, z)

pkgmaker documentation built on May 2, 2019, 4:42 p.m.