findPat function

Search a Character Vector to Find Multiple Patterns

Use all available patterns in pat to search in vec, and return the matched elements in vec.

findPat(pat, vec)

Arguments

• pat: character vector of patterns to match in vec
• vec: character vector where matches are sought

Returns

A character vector of all matched strings.

Author(s)

Rowan Haigh, Pacific Biological Station, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Nanaimo BC

Examples

local(envir=.PBSmodEnv,expr={
  #find all strings with a vowel, or that start with a number
  print(findPat(c("[aeiou]", "^[0-9]"), c("hello", "WORLD", "1over")))
})