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Reputation: 133

Split text based on the exact match from list of patterns using r

I have text and patterns.

text <- "It is only a very poor quality car that can give big problems with automatic gearbox" 
patterns <- c("very poor","big problems")

Split text

unlist(strsplit(text, "(\\s+)|(?!')(?=[[:punct:]])", perl = TRUE))

Output:

[1] "It"        "is"        "only"      "a"         "very"      "poor"      "quality"   "car"       "that"      "can"      
[11] "give"      "big"       "problems"  "with"      "automatic" "gearbox"

What I need is match the list of patterns in the sentence instead of "very" "poor" it become "very poor" same with "big problems".

Sample Output:

[1] "It"     "is"     "only"    "a"    "very poor"   "quality"   "car"  "that"   "can"      
[10] "give"   "big problems"  "with"   "automatic"   "gearbox"

How should I do this?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 77

Answers (1)

Nick Kennedy
Nick Kennedy

Reputation: 12640

This is one approach:

library(stringr)
text <- "It is only a very poor quality car that can give big problems with automatic gearbox" 
patterns <- c("very poor","big problems")
patterns_ns <- setNames(str_replace_all(patterns, " ", "&&"), patterns)
text_ns <- str_replace_all(text, patterns_ns)
text_split <- str_replace_all(unlist(str_split(text_ns, "\\s")), "&&", " ")
text_split

I’ve assumed that "&&" is a string that doesn’t actually appear in your source text, and that you want to split at white space.

Upvotes: 2

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