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rstringyoutubegreplcaption
Aman
Aman

Reputation: 107

Reading inappropriate word/symbol from YouTube caption in R

I have data from YouTube captions. Some inappropriate words are shown by [ __ ] in excel file. When I read the data in R it appears as [ __ ]. I am using str_contains in order to identify any inappropriate words in the text but it isn't able to identify [ __ ] in R. grepl is also not helping my cause.

I will appreciate any help.

text <- "oh well holy [ __ ] this is right there is"
str_contains("[ __ ]", text)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 41

Answers (1)

Mark
Mark

Reputation: 12558

Neil was right, the parameters were the wrong way around:

pacman::p_load(sjmisc)
text <- "oh well holy [ __ ] this is right there is"
pattern <- "[ __ ]"
str_contains(pattern, text) # FALSE
str_contains(text, pattern) # TRUE

Upvotes: 0

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