From ?stringr::str_extract
, I tried
library(stringr)
str_extract("number 123", "\\d")
# [1] "1"
but I'd like the full number 123
. I couldn't find the correct regular expression, or another function to perform this task. My workaround is a bit ugly,
as.numeric(str_split("number 123", " ")[[1]][2])
# [1] 123
For this particular example, the following regular expression works:
pat <- "(\\d)+"
as.numeric(str_extract("number 123", pat))
# [1] 123
If you want to only pick out numbers that terminate the text string that they are in, add a $
to the end of the pattern above.
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