qdapRegex (version 0.1.1)

rm_zip: Remove/Replace/Extract Zip Codes

Description

Remove/replace/extract zip codes from a string.

Usage

rm_zip(text.var, trim = !extract, clean = TRUE, pattern = "@rm_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_zip uses the rm_zip regex from the regular expression dictionary

replacement

Replacement for matched pattern.

extract

logical. If TRUE the zip codes 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 U.S. 5 and 5+4 zip codes removed.

References

The time regular expression was taken from: http://stackoverflow.com/a/25223890/1000343

See Also

gsub, stri_extract_all_regex

Examples

x <- c("Mr. Bean bought 2 tickets 2-613-213-4567",
  "43 Butter Rd, Brossard QC K0A 3P0 - 613 213 4567",
  "Rat Race, XX, 12345",
  "Ignore phone numbers(613)2134567",
  "Grab zips with dashes 12345-6789 or no space before12345-6789",
  "Grab zips with spaces 12345 6789 or no space before12345 6789",
  "I like 1234567 dogs"
)

rm_zip(x)
rm_zip(x, extract=TRUE)