Get names by string matching multiple patterns

Usage

mgetnames(
  x,
  pattern = NULL,
  starts_with = NULL,
  ends_with = NULL,
  ignore_case = TRUE,
  return_index = FALSE
)

Arguments

x: Character vector or object with names() method.
pattern: Character vector: pattern(s) to match anywhere in names of x.
starts_with: Character: pattern to match in the beginning of names of x.
ends_with: Character: pattern to match at the end of names of x.
ignore_case: Logical: If TRUE, well, ignore case.
return_index: Logical: If TRUE, return integer index of matches instead of names.

Value

Character vector of matched names or integer index.

Details

pattern, starts_with, and ends_with are applied and the union of all matches is returned. pattern can be a character vector of multiple patterns to match.

Author

EDG

Examples

mgetnames(iris, pattern = c("Sepal", "Petal"))
#> [1] "Sepal.Length" "Sepal.Width"  "Petal.Length" "Petal.Width" 
mgetnames(iris, starts_with = "Sepal")
#> [1] "Sepal.Length" "Sepal.Width" 
mgetnames(iris, ends_with = "Width")
#> [1] "Sepal.Width" "Petal.Width"