regexp {pracma}

Match regular expression

Description

Returns the positions of substrings that match the regular expression.

Usage

regexp(s, pat, ignorecase = FALSE, once = FALSE, split = FALSE)

regexpi(s, pat, once = FALSE, split = FALSE)

Arguments

s

Character string, i.e. of length 1.

pat

Matching pattern as character string.

ignorecase

Logical: whether case should be ignored; default: FALSE.

once

Logical: whether the first are all occurrences should be found; default: all.

split

Logical: should the string be splitted at the occurrences of the pattern?; default: no.

Details

Returns the start and end positions and the exact value of substrings that match the regular expression. If split is choosen, the splitted strings will also be returned.

Value

A list with components start and end as numeric vectors indicating the start and end positions of the matches.

match contains each exact match, and split contains the character vector of splitted strings.

If no match is found all components will be NULL, except split that will contain the whole string if split = TRUE.

Note

This is the behavior of the corresponding Matlab function, though the signature, options and return values do not match exactly. Notice the transposed parameters s and pat compared to the corresponding R function regexpr.

See Also

regexpr

Examples

s <- "bat cat can car COAT court cut ct CAT-scan"
pat <-  'c[aeiou]+t'
regexp(s, pat)
regexpi(s, pat)