strMultiMatch: return the actual matches from a bracketed regex
Description
Be careful: this may throw funny results for exotic regex, but
so far, it seems okay. it also drops the first result which always seems to
be a duplicate or whole-string match
regular expression: if it has bracketed sections, these
submatches are returned
text
is the string to match against. This vector should be the same
length as the pattern vector, or the patern vector should be length one.
...
are additional parameters passed to regexec and regmatches. I
haven't tried this: it may need two separate variables containing lists of
params, since this will send everything to both functions.
dropEmpty
logical whether to drop rows with no matches
Value
list of character vectors, list length being the length of the inptu
text vector.