stRoke/R/str_extract.R

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#' Extract string based on regex pattern
#'
#' Use base::strsplit to
#' @param d vector of character strings
#' @param pattern regex pattern to match
#'
#' @return vector of character strings
#' @export
#'
#' @examples
#' ls <- do.call(c,lapply(sample(4:8,20,TRUE),function(i){
#' paste(sample(letters,i,TRUE),collapse = "")}))
#' ds <- do.call(c,lapply(1:20,function(i){
#' paste(sample(ls,1),i,sample(ls,1),"23",sep = "_")}))
#' str_extract(ds,"([0-9]+)")
str_extract <- function(d,pattern){
if (!is.vector(d)) stop("Please provide a vector")
## Drawing on the solution in REDCapCAST::strsplitx to split around pattern
nl <- strsplit(gsub("~~", "~", # Removes double ~
gsub("^~", "", # Removes leading ~
gsub(
# Splits and inserts ~ at all delimiters
paste0("(", pattern, ")"), "~\\1~", d
))), "~")
## Reusing the pattern, to sub with "" and match on length 0 to index the
## element containing the pattern. Only first occurance included.
indx <- lapply(nl,function(i){
match(0,nchar(sub(pattern,"",i)))
})
## Using lapply to subsset the given index for each element in list
do.call(c,lapply(seq_along(nl), function(i){
nl[[i]][indx[[i]]]
} ))
}