Re: [R] using grepl in dplyr

2016-11-29 Thread Jeff Newmiller
That is not a very selective regex. Actually, a long "or" probably is best, but you don't have to type it in directly. prefixes <- c( "AD", "FN" ) pat <- paste0( "^(", paste( prefixes, collapse="|" ), ")[0-9]{4}$" ) grepl( pat, Identifier ) -- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. On

[R] using grepl in dplyr

2016-11-29 Thread Glenn Schultz
Hello All, I have a dataframe of about 1.5 million rows from this dataframe I need to filter out identifiers.  An example would be 07-07099, AD-AD0999, and AL-AL, FN-FN.  I am using grepl to identify those of interest as follows:  grepl("^[FN]|[AD]{2}", Identifier) Th