replace_email {textclean}

Replace Email Addresses

Description

Replaces email addresses.

Usage

replace_email(x, pattern = qdapRegex::grab("rm_email"), replacement = "",
  ...)

Arguments

x

The text variable.

pattern

Character time regex string to be matched in the given character vector.

replacement

A function to operate on the extracted matches or a character string which is a replacement for the matched pattern.

...

ignored.

Value

Returns a vector with email addresses replaced.

Examples

x <- c(
    "fred is [e-mail] and joe is [e-mail] - but @this is a", 
    "twitter handle for [e-mail] or [e-mail]/[e-mail]", 
    "hello world", 
    NA
)

replace_email(x)
replace_email(x, replacement = '<<EMAIL>>')
replace_email(x, replacement = '<a href="mailto:$1" target="_blank">$1</a>')

## Replacement with a function
replace_email(x, 
    replacement = function(x){
        sprintf('<a href="mailto:%s" target="_blank">%s</a>', x, x)
    }
)


replace_email(x, 
    replacement = function(x){
        gsub('@.+$', ' {{at domain}}', x)
    }
)