Multiple match

Seek all elements matching a given pattern in a character strings.

multiMatch(text, pattern)

Arguments

text	a character vector where matches are sought, or an object which can be coerced by as.character to a character vector, see regexec.
pattern	character string containing a regular expression to be matched in the given character vector, see regexec.

Value

A vector of character strings matching pattern argument.

Details

multiMatch is essentially a wrapper around base::regexec() and base::regmatches() to find more than one match.

Examples

multiMatch(loremIpsum(), " [[:alnum:]]{3} ")
#> [1] " sit " " sed " " qui " " est " " est " " nec " " est " " sed " " hac "