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Detect the presence of any pattern in a string

Source: R/character.R
str_detect_any.Rd

str_detect_any() returns TRUE if any element of patterns is present in string. str_starts_any() and str_ends_any() match only at the beginning or end of strings.

Usage

str_detect_any(
  string,
  patterns,
  whole_word = FALSE,
  ignore_case = FALSE,
  negate = FALSE
)

str_starts_any(
  string,
  patterns,
  whole_word = FALSE,
  ignore_case = FALSE,
  negate = FALSE
)

str_ends_any(
  string,
  patterns,
  whole_word = FALSE,
  ignore_case = FALSE,
  negate = FALSE
)

Arguments

string

a character vector or something coercible to one.

patterns

a character vector containing regular expressions to look for.

whole_word

logical. Match only whole words in string (as defined by "\\b" word boundary)?

ignore_case

logical. Ignore case when matching patterns to string?

negate

Logical. if TRUE, inverts the resulting boolean vector.

See also

stringr::str_detect() stringr::str_starts()