Examples for 'stringr::word'


Extract words from a sentence

Aliases: word

Keywords:

### ** Examples

sentences <- c("Jane saw a cat", "Jane sat down")
word(sentences, 1)
[1] "Jane" "Jane"
word(sentences, 2)
[1] "saw" "sat"
word(sentences, -1)
[1] "cat"  "down"
word(sentences, 2, -1)
[1] "saw a cat" "sat down" 
# Also vectorised over start and end
word(sentences[1], 1:3, -1)
[1] "Jane saw a cat" "saw a cat"      "a cat"         
word(sentences[1], 1, 1:4)
[1] "Jane"           "Jane saw"       "Jane saw a"     "Jane saw a cat"
# Can define words by other separators
str <- 'abc.def..123.4568.999'
word(str, 1, sep = fixed('..'))
[1] "abc.def"
word(str, 2, sep = fixed('..'))
[1] "123.4568.999"

[Package stringr version 1.5.1 Index]