Examples

The goal of this vignette is to provide some basic examples that solve common regular expression tasks. The print and grepl calls are attached at the end of each chain to show the regular expression that is constructed and what it matches.

# find something that must contain two words
rx() %>% 
  rx_find("cat") %>% 
  rx_anything() %>% 
  rx_find("dog") %>% 
  print() %>% 
  grepl(c("cat dog", "cat", "dog"))
#> [1] "(cat)(.*)(dog)"
#> [1]  TRUE FALSE FALSE

# find something between two words
rx() %>% 
  rx_seek_prefix("cat") %>% 
  rx_something() %>% 
  rx_seek_suffix("dog") %>% 
  print() %>% 
  grepl(c("cat something dog", "catdog"), perl = TRUE)
#> [1] "(?<=cat)(.+)(?=dog)"
#> [1]  TRUE FALSE

# find something that starts with word
rx() %>% 
  rx_start_of_line() %>% 
  rx_find("cat") %>% 
  print() %>% 
  grepl(c("cat", "cat dog", "dog cat"))
#> [1] "^(cat)"
#> [1]  TRUE  TRUE FALSE

# find something that ends with word
rx() %>% 
  rx_find("cat") %>% 
  rx_end_of_line() %>% 
  print() %>% 
  grepl(c("cat", "cat dog", "dog cat"))
#> [1] "(cat)$"
#> [1]  TRUE FALSE  TRUE

# find something that starts with and ends with words
rx() %>% 
  rx_start_of_line() %>% 
  rx_find("cat") %>% 
  rx_anything() %>% 
  rx_find("dog") %>% 
  rx_end_of_line() %>% 
  print() %>% 
  grepl(c("cat", "cat dog", "dog cat"))
#> [1] "^(cat)(.*)(dog)$"
#> [1] FALSE  TRUE FALSE

# find something regardless of case
rx() %>% 
  rx_find("cat") %>% 
  rx_with_any_case() %>% 
  print() %>% 
  grepl(c("cat", "CAT"))
#> [1] "(?i)(cat)"
#> [1] TRUE TRUE