rm_phone function

Remove/Replace/Extract Phone Numbers

Remove/replace/extract phone numbers from a string.

rm_phone(
  text.var,
  trim = !extract,
  clean = TRUE,
  pattern = "@rm_phone",
  replacement = "",
  extract = FALSE,
  dictionary = getOption("regex.library"),
  ...
)

ex_phone(
  text.var,
  trim = !extract,
  clean = TRUE,
  pattern = "@rm_phone",
  replacement = "",
  extract = TRUE,
  dictionary = getOption("regex.library"),
  ...
)

Arguments

• text.var: The text variable.
• trim: logical. If TRUE removes leading and trailing white spaces.
• clean: trim logical. If TRUE extra white spaces and escaped character will be removed.
• pattern: A character string containing a regular expression (or character string for fixed = TRUE) to be matched in the given character vector. Default, @rm_phone uses the rm_phone regex from the regular expression dictionary from the dictionary argument.
• replacement: Replacement for matched pattern.
• extract: logical. If TRUE the phone numbers are extracted into a list of vectors.
• dictionary: A dictionary of canned regular expressions to search within if pattern begins with "@rm_".
• ...: Other arguments passed to gsub.

Returns

Returns a character string with phone numbers removed.

Examples

x <- c(" Mr. Bean bought 2 tickets 2-613-213-4567 or 5555555555 call either one",
  "43 Butter Rd, Brossard QC K0A 3P0 - 613 213 4567", 
  "Please contact Mr. Bean (613)2134567",
  "1.575.555.5555 is his #1 number",  
  "7164347566",
  "I like 1234567 dogs"
)

rm_phone(x)
ex_phone(x)

References

The phone regular expression was taken from: https://stackoverflow.com/a/21008254/1000343

See Also

gsub, stri_extract_all_regex

Other rm_ functions: rm_abbreviation(), rm_between(), rm_bracket(), rm_caps(), rm_caps_phrase(), rm_citation(), rm_citation_tex(), rm_city_state(), rm_city_state_zip(), rm_date(), rm_default(), rm_dollar(), rm_email(), rm_emoticon(), rm_endmark(), rm_hash(), rm_nchar_words(), rm_non_ascii(), rm_non_words(), rm_number(), rm_percent(), rm_postal_code(), rm_repeated_characters(), rm_repeated_phrases(), rm_repeated_words(), rm_tag(), rm_time(), rm_title_name(), rm_url(), rm_white(), rm_zip()

Author(s)

stackoverflow's Marius and Tyler Rinker tyler.rinker@gmail.com.