qdapRegex (version 0.1.1)

rm_city_state_zip: Remove/Replace/Extract City, State, & Zip

Description

Remove/replace/extract city (single lower case word or multiple consecutive capitalized words before a comma and state) + state (2 consecutive capital letters) + zip code (5 digits or 5 + 4 digits) from a string.

Usage

rm_city_state_zip(text.var, trim = !extract, clean = TRUE,
  pattern = "@rm_city_state_zip", replacement = "", extract = FALSE,
  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_city_state_zip uses the rm_city_state_zip regex from the regular

replacement

Replacement for matched pattern.

extract

logical. If TRUE the city, state, & zip 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 city, state, & zip removed.

See Also

gsub, stri_extract_all_regex

Examples

x <- paste0("I went to Washington Heights, NY 54321 for food! ",
   "It's in West ven,PA 12345, near Bolly Bolly Bolly, CA12345-1234!",
   "hello world")
rm_city_state_zip(x)
rm_city_state_zip(x, extract=TRUE)