rm_percent {qdapRegex}

Remove/Replace/Extract Percentages

Description

Remove/replace/extract percentages from a string.

Usage

rm_percent(
  text.var,
  trim = !extract,
  clean = TRUE,
  pattern = "@rm_percent",
  replacement = "",
  extract = FALSE,
  dictionary = getOption("regex.library"),
  ...
)

ex_percent(
  text.var,
  trim = !extract,
  clean = TRUE,
  pattern = "@rm_percent",
  replacement = "",
  extract = TRUE,
  dictionary = getOption("regex.library"),
  ...
)

Arguments

text.var

The text variable.

trim

logical. If TRUE removes leading and trailing white spaces.

clean

trim logical. If TRUE extra white spaces and escaped character will be removed.

pattern

A character string containing a regular expression (or character string for fixed = TRUE) to be matched in the given character vector. Default, @rm_percent uses the rm_percent regex from the regular expression dictionary from the dictionary argument.

replacement

Replacement for matched pattern.

extract

logical. If TRUE the percentages are extracted into a list of vectors.

dictionary

A dictionary of canned regular expressions to search within if pattern begins with "@rm_".

...

Other arguments passed to gsub.

Value

Returns a character string with percentages removed.

See Also

gsub, stri_extract_all_regex

Other rm_ functions: rm_abbreviation(), rm_between(), rm_bracket(), rm_caps_phrase(), rm_caps(), rm_citation_tex(), rm_citation(), rm_city_state_zip(), rm_city_state(), rm_date(), rm_default(), rm_dollar(), rm_email(), rm_emoticon(), rm_endmark(), rm_hash(), rm_nchar_words(), rm_non_ascii(), rm_non_words(), rm_number(), rm_phone(), rm_postal_code(), rm_repeated_characters(), rm_repeated_phrases(), rm_repeated_words(), rm_tag(), rm_time(), rm_title_name(), rm_url(), rm_white(), rm_zip()

Examples

x <-  c("There is $5.50 for me.", "that's 45.6% of the pizza", 
    "14% is $26 or $25.99")

rm_percent(x)
ex_percent(x)