stringr (version 1.0.0)

modifiers: Control matching behaviour with modifier functions.

Description

fixed

Compare literal bytes in the string. This is very fast, but not usually what you want for non-ASCII character sets.

coll

Compare strings respecting standard collation rules.

regexp

The default. Uses ICU regular expressions.

boundary

Match boundaries between things.

Usage

fixed(pattern, ignore_case = FALSE)
coll(pattern, ignore_case = FALSE, locale = NULL, ...)
regex(pattern, ignore_case = FALSE, multiline = FALSE, comments = FALSE, dotall = FALSE, ...)
boundary(type = c("character", "line_break", "sentence", "word"), skip_word_none = TRUE, ...)

Arguments

pattern

Pattern to modify behaviour.

ignore_case

Should case differences be ignored in the match?

locale

Locale to use for comparisons. See stri_locale_list() for all possible options.

...

Other less frequently used arguments passed on to stri_opts_collator, stri_opts_regex, or stri_opts_brkiter

multiline

If TRUE, $ and ^ match the beginning and end of each line. If FALSE, the default, only match the start and end of the input.

comments

If TRUE, white space and comments beginning with # are ignored. Escape literal spaces with \ .

dotall

If TRUE, . will also match line terminators.

type

Boundary type to detect.

skip_word_none

Ignore "words" that don't contain any characters or numbers - i.e. punctuation.

Examples

pattern <- "a.b"
strings <- c("abb", "a.b")
str_detect(strings, pattern)
str_detect(strings, fixed(pattern))
str_detect(strings, coll(pattern))

# coll() is useful for locale-aware case-insensitive matching
i <- c("I", "\u0130", "i")
i
str_detect(i, fixed("i", TRUE))
str_detect(i, coll("i", TRUE))
str_detect(i, coll("i", TRUE, locale = "tr"))

# Word boundaries
words <- c("These are   some words.")
str_count(words, boundary("word"))
str_split(words, " ")[[1]]
str_split(words, boundary("word"))[[1]]

# Regular expression variations
str_extract_all("The Cat in the Hat", "[a-z]+")
str_extract_all("The Cat in the Hat", regex("[a-z]+", TRUE))

str_extract_all("a\nb\nc", "^.")
str_extract_all("a\nb\nc", regex("^.", multiline = TRUE))

str_extract_all("a\nb\nc", "a.")
str_extract_all("a\nb\nc", regex("a.", dotall = TRUE))