extract_differences_between_characters function

Identify shared leading or trailing character strings

For a vector of character strings, identify elements between shared leading and/or trailing substrings, e.g. for a vector such as c("XXX01YYY",XXX02YYY") extract the numbers.

extract_differences_between_characters(strings)

Arguments

• strings: vector of character strings for elements to be extracted from.

Returns

vector of strings similar to the input vector but without shared leading and trailing characters.

Examples

extract_differences_between_characters(c("Temp_01","Temp_02","Temp_03"))
  extract_differences_between_characters(c("Temp_01_Tmin","Temp_02_Tmin","Temp_03_Tmin"))
  extract_differences_between_characters(c("a","b"))

Author(s)

Eike Luedeling