str_match {stringstatic}

Extract matched groups from a string

Description

Dependency-free drop-in alternative for stringr::str_match().

Usage

str_match(string, pattern)

Arguments

string

Input vector. Either a character vector, or something coercible to one.

pattern

Pattern to look for.

The default interpretation is a regular expression, as described in base::regex. Control options with regex().

Match a fixed string (i.e. by comparing only bytes), using fixed(). This is fast, but approximate.

Value

A character matrix. The first column is the complete match, followed by one column for each capture group.

Source

Adapted from the stringr package.