Function reference • suitestrings

Pattern matching

Manipulate strings based on regular expressions (or fixed literal strings).

str_detect() str_detect_starts_with() str_detect_ends_with() chr_detect_any() chr_detect_all(): Detect the presence of a pattern in a string

str_extract_first() str_extract_all() str_extract_nth() str_extract_last() chr_extract_all(): Extract complete matches from strings

str_locate_first() str_locate_all() str_locate_nth() str_locate_last(): Locate pattern matches in strings

str_replace_first() str_replace_all() str_replace_nth() str_replace_last(): Replace parts of a string with new text.

str_remove_first() str_remove_all() str_remove_nth() str_remove_last(): Remove Patterns from Strings

str_split_all() str_split_first() str_split_nth() str_split_last() chr_split_all(): Split strings by a pattern

Match patterns across the entire character vector

chr_which(): Find matching indices in character vector

chr_subset(): Get matching elements

chr_count_matches(): Count matching indices in character vector

Combining strings

str_concat(): Concatenate strings

str_glue(): Evaluate R code within strings

chr_collapse(): Collapse a character vector to a single string

Character-based transformation

Functions for cleaning and transforming strings with respect to characters.

str_length() str_width(): Get the length or width of strings

Shorten strings

str_trim() str_squish(): Remove trailing and leading whitespace

str_truncate(): Shorten a string to a specified size

Extend strings

str_repeat(): Repeat character sequences

str_pad(): Pad a string to a minimum length

str_indent(): Add characters to the ends of strings

Reformat strings

str_to_upper_case() str_to_lower_case() str_to_snake_case() str_to_camel_case(): Convert strings to different cases

str_wrap(): Wrap character strings to format as paragraphs

Organise character vectors

chr_sort() chr_order() chr_rank(): Re-organise a character vector

chr_unique(): Remove duplicated strings