This function does a regular expression based search for each name in one vector for the values in the other vector and returns a named vector with names as the matched names and values as given in the queried vector.
match_grep(grep_vec, actual_names, use_values = F, return_names = F,
echo = F)A named vector with the names to be searched for and the values, which the matching names should hold. It can also be a unnamed vector of names to search for.
A vector giving the names in which the search is to be made
Logical value. (TRUE) if the values in the grep_vec are to be used for searching. Defualut is FALSE
Logical value (TRUE) if just want to return the matching names and not the values. Defualut is FALSE
Logical value(TRUE) To print for each name in the grep_vec, which values in actual_names match and didnt match. Default is FALSE
A named vector with the matched names and substituted values or a vector of macthed names