Examples for 'data.table::like'

Convenience function for calling grep.

Aliases: like %like% %ilike% %flike%

Keywords: data

### ** Examples

DT = data.table(Name=c("Mary","George","Martha"), Salary=c(2,3,4))
DT[Name %like% "^Mar"]

     Name Salary
1:   Mary      2
2: Martha      4

DT[Name %ilike% "mar"]

     Name Salary
1:   Mary      2
2: Martha      4

DT[Name %flike% "Mar"]

     Name Salary
1:   Mary      2
2: Martha      4
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