qdapRegex (version 0.3.2)

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 Other rm_.functions: rm_abbreviation; rm_angle, rm_bracket, rm_bracket_multiple, rm_curly, rm_round, rm_square; rm_between, rm_between_multiple; rm_caps_phrase; rm_caps; rm_citation_tex; rm_citation; rm_city_state; rm_date; rm_default; rm_dollar; rm_email; rm_emoticon; rm_endmark; rm_hash; rm_nchar_words; rm_non_ascii; rm_number; rm_percent; rm_phone; rm_postal_code; rm_repeated_characters; rm_repeated_phrases; rm_repeated_words; rm_tag; rm_time; rm_title_name; rm_twitter_url, rm_url; rm_white, rm_white_bracket, rm_white_colon, rm_white_comma, rm_white_endmark, rm_white_lead, rm_white_lead_trail, rm_white_multiple, rm_white_punctuation, rm_white_trail; rm_zip

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)