qdapRegex (version 0.1.1)

rm_time: Remove/Replace/Extract Time

Description

Remove/replace/extract time from a string.

Usage

rm_time(text.var, trim = !extract, clean = TRUE, pattern = "@rm_time",
  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_time uses the rm_time regex from the regular expression dictiona

replacement

Replacement for matched pattern.

extract

logical. If TRUE the times 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 time removed.

References

The time regular expression was taken from: http://stackoverflow.com/a/25111133/1000343

See Also

gsub, stri_extract_all_regex

Examples

x <-  c("R uses 1:5 for 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.",
    "At 3:00 we'll meet up and leave by 4:30:20",
    "We'll meet at 6:33.", "He ran it in :22.34")

rm_time(x)
rm_time(x, extract=TRUE)