qdapRegex (version 0.1.1)

rm_dollar: Remove/Replace/Extract Dollars

Description

Remove/replace/extract dollars amounts from a string.

Usage

rm_dollar(text.var, trim = !extract, clean = TRUE, pattern = "@rm_dollar",
  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_dollar uses the rm_dollar regex from the regular expression dict

replacement

Replacement for matched pattern.

extract

logical. If TRUE the dollar strings 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 dollars removed.

See Also

gsub, stri_extract_all_regex

Examples

x <-  c("There is $5.50 for me.", "that's 45.6% of the pizza",
    "14% is $26 or $25.99")

rm_dollar(x)
rm_dollar(x, extract=TRUE)