re_search {re} | R Documentation |
re_search
searches for occurrences of a specified pattern (regular expression) within each element of
a character vector. If the provided pattern is not already a compiled pattern object, it compiles it using
re_compile
.
re_search(pattern, string, ...)
pattern |
A regular expression pattern or a compiled pattern object. |
string |
A character vector where each element is a string in which to search for the pattern. |
... |
Arguments passed on to
|
A list where each element is a character vector containing all matches found in the corresponding element of
string
. If no matches are found, the element will be character(0)
.
Python re.search() documentation
pattern <- re_compile("\\d+")
re_search(pattern, "abc 123 xyz") # Finds "123"
re_search("\\bword\\b", "A sentence with the word.") # Finds "word"