rx_break

Wrap a word in word boundary (<code>\\b</code>) characters. Useful when combined with
<code><a href="https://stringr.tidyverse.org/reference/str_subset.html">stringr::str_which()</a></code> and <code><a href="https://stringr.tidyverse.org/reference/str_detect.html">stringr::str_detect()</a></code> to match only entire words
and not that word inside another word (e.g., "sting" and "testing").

Explore and normalize American campaign finance
data. Created by the Investigative Reporting Workshop to facilitate
work on The Accountability Project, an effort to collect public data
into a central, standard database that is more easily searched:
<https://publicaccountability.org/>.

Kiernan Nicholls

campfin

Wrangle Campaign Finance Data

Investigative Reporting Workshop 

Yanqi Xu

Schuyler Erle

rx_break function

<dl><dt>pattern</dt>
<dd>A regex pattern (a word) to wrap in <code>\\b</code>.</dd></dl>

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Wrap a word in word boundary (<code>\\b</code>) characters. Useful when combined with
<code><a href='https://stringr.tidyverse.org/reference/str_subset.html'>stringr::str_which()</a></code> and <code><a href='https://stringr.tidyverse.org/reference/str_detect.html'>stringr::str_detect()</a></code> to match only entire words
and not that word inside another word (e.g., "sting" and "testing").

Form a word break regex pattern — rx_break

<dl>

<dt>pattern</dt>
<dd>A regex pattern (a word) to wrap in <code>\\b</code>.</dd>

</dl>

rx_break: Form a word break regex pattern

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