[R] how to capture matching words in a string ?

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Try this and see the gsubfn home page for more info:
http://gsubfn.googlecode.com

> library(gsubfn)
Loading required package: proto
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> s <- "sID23423424 apple pID324234325 orange"
> strapply(s, "ID[0-9]+")[[1]]
[1] "ID23423424"  "ID324234325"


On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 9:33 PM, Daren Tan <daren76 at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> I need to capture matching words in a string, any ideas ?
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> I tried using gregexpr, but it was no help. In this example, I need to capture ID23423424 and ID324234325
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>> s <- "sID23423424 apple pID324234325 orange"> gregexpr("ID[0-9]+", s)[[1]][1]  2 20attr(,"match.length")[1] 10 11
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