Re: [R] reg expr that retains only bracketed text from strings
Hi Nevil,
In case you are still having trouble with this, I wrote something in R
that should do what you want:
mystrings<-c("ABC","A(B)C","AB[C]","BC","{AB}C")
get_enclosed<-function(x,left=c("(","[","<","{"),right=c(")","]",">","}")) {
newx<-rep("",length(x))
for(li in 1:length(left)) {
for(xi in 1:length(x)) {
lp<-regexpr(left[li],x[xi],fixed=TRUE)
rp<-regexpr(right[li],x[xi],fixed=TRUE)
if(lp > 0 && rp > 0)
newx[xi]<-substr(x[xi],lp+1,rp-1)
}
}
return(newx)
}
get_enclosed(mystrings)
Jim
On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 12:32 AM William Dunlap via R-help
wrote:
>
> strcapture() can help here.
>
> > mystrings<-c("ABC","A(B)C","AB(C)")
> > strcapture("^[^{]*(\\([^(]*\\)).*$", mystrings,
> proto=data.frame(InParen=""))
> InParen
> 1
> 2 (B)
> 3 (C)
>
> Classic regular expressions don't do so well with nested parentheses.
> Perhaps a perl-style RE could do that.
> > strcapture("^[^{]*(\\([^(]*\\)).*$", proto=data.frame(InParen=""),
> x=c("()", "a(s(d)f)g"))
> InParen
> 1 ()
> 2 (d)f)
>
> Bill Dunlap
> TIBCO Software
> wdunlap tibco.com
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 10:46 PM nevil amos wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > I am trying to extract only the text contained in brackets from a vector of
> > strings
> > not all of the strings contain closed bracketed text, they should return an
> > empty string or NA
> >
> > this is what I have at the moment
> >
> >
> > mystrings<-c("ABC","A(B)C","AB(C)")
> >
> > substring(mystrings, regexpr("\\(|\\)", mystrings))
> >
> >
> > #this returns the whole string if there are no brackets.
> > [1] "ABC" "(B)C" "(C)"
> >
> >
> > # my desired desired output:
> > #[1] "" "(B)" "(C)"
> >
> > many thanks for any suggestions
> > Nevil Amos
> >
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Re: [R] reg expr that retains only bracketed text from strings
strcapture() can help here.
> mystrings<-c("ABC","A(B)C","AB(C)")
> strcapture("^[^{]*(\\([^(]*\\)).*$", mystrings,
proto=data.frame(InParen=""))
InParen
1
2 (B)
3 (C)
Classic regular expressions don't do so well with nested parentheses.
Perhaps a perl-style RE could do that.
> strcapture("^[^{]*(\\([^(]*\\)).*$", proto=data.frame(InParen=""),
x=c("()", "a(s(d)f)g"))
InParen
1 ()
2 (d)f)
Bill Dunlap
TIBCO Software
wdunlap tibco.com
On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 10:46 PM nevil amos wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am trying to extract only the text contained in brackets from a vector of
> strings
> not all of the strings contain closed bracketed text, they should return an
> empty string or NA
>
> this is what I have at the moment
>
>
> mystrings<-c("ABC","A(B)C","AB(C)")
>
> substring(mystrings, regexpr("\\(|\\)", mystrings))
>
>
> #this returns the whole string if there are no brackets.
> [1] "ABC" "(B)C" "(C)"
>
>
> # my desired desired output:
> #[1] "" "(B)" "(C)"
>
> many thanks for any suggestions
> Nevil Amos
>
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>
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Re: [R] reg expr that retains only bracketed text from strings
On Wed, 12 Jun 2019 15:45:04 +1000
nevil amos wrote:
> # my desired desired output:
> #[1] "" "(B)" "(C)"
(function(s) regmatches(
s,
gregexpr('\\([^)]+\\)', s)
))(c("ABC","A(B)C","AB(C)"))
# [[1]]
# character(0)
#
# [[2]]
# [1] "(B)"
#
# [[3]]
# [1] "(C)"
This matches all substrings that start with an ( and are followed by
non-zero amount of non-) characters, then terminated by ). If there are
multiple such substrings, all are returned.
--
Best regards,
Ivan
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Re: [R] reg expr that retains only bracketed text from strings
Hi Nevil,
Here's one way to do it. (No doubt some regular-expression-gurus will have
more concise ways to get the job done.)
a1 <- sub(".*\\(","\\(",mystrings)
a2 <- sub("\\).*","\\)",a1)
a2[grep("\\(",a2,invert=TRUE)] <- ""
a2
HTH,
Eric
On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 8:46 AM nevil amos wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am trying to extract only the text contained in brackets from a vector of
> strings
> not all of the strings contain closed bracketed text, they should return an
> empty string or NA
>
> this is what I have at the moment
>
>
> mystrings<-c("ABC","A(B)C","AB(C)")
>
> substring(mystrings, regexpr("\\(|\\)", mystrings))
>
>
> #this returns the whole string if there are no brackets.
> [1] "ABC" "(B)C" "(C)"
>
>
> # my desired desired output:
> #[1] "" "(B)" "(C)"
>
> many thanks for any suggestions
> Nevil Amos
>
> [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
>
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[R] reg expr that retains only bracketed text from strings
Hi
I am trying to extract only the text contained in brackets from a vector of
strings
not all of the strings contain closed bracketed text, they should return an
empty string or NA
this is what I have at the moment
mystrings<-c("ABC","A(B)C","AB(C)")
substring(mystrings, regexpr("\\(|\\)", mystrings))
#this returns the whole string if there are no brackets.
[1] "ABC" "(B)C" "(C)"
# my desired desired output:
#[1] "" "(B)" "(C)"
many thanks for any suggestions
Nevil Amos
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