soundcorrs (version 0.2.0)

expandMeta: Expand custom metacharacters to a regular expression.

Description

Turn characters defined in a transcription as metacharacters into the corresponding regular expression.

Usage

expandMeta(transcription, x)

Arguments

transcription

[transcription] The transcription to use.

x

[character] The string containing metacharacters.

Value

[character] A string with metacharacters expanded.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
dataset <- sampleSoundCorrsData.capitals
expandMeta (dataset$trans[[1]], "aN")
orth.german <- dataset$data$ORTHOGRAPHY.German
query <- "lin"
orth.german [ grep (query, orth.german) ]
query <- expandMeta (dataset$trans[[1]], "lin$")
orth.german [ grep (query, orth.german) ]
# }