Understanding and Testing Regular Expressions
This lesson is called Understanding and Testing Regular Expressions, part of the Data Cleaning with R course. This lesson is called Understanding and Testing Regular Expressions, part of the Data Cleaning with R course.
Transcript
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Your Turn
Navigate to rubular, regex101, regexr, or regexpal and familiarize yourself with the user interface.
Input the following text into the test string field:
2 cups whole milk 1 cup white rice (uncooked) 1 pinch salt 1/2 cup water 1/4 cup dark brown sugar
Write regular expressions (one at a time) to match the wet ingredients and look at the match results.
Learn More
In addition to the regex testing websites above, you might be interested in the regexplain
package.
Another approach to doing regex in R is to use the str_view()
function from the stringr
package, which shows you matches in a string.
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Course Content
32 Lessons
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