Extracting text after a symbol in R

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#1

Hello, I have a string and I want to extract all the text after the symbol ‘?’.

x<- “What is your name? Peter Parker”

how to use the str_extract_all function to do so?

#2

I am not sure how to do this using the str_extract_all function but it can also be done using the read.table()

> x<- "What is your name? Peter Parker"
> read.table(text = x, sep = "?", as.is = TRUE)
                 V1            V2
1 What is your name  Peter Parker

This gives a table with two columns V1 and V2.
Now to extract the second part after ?

   > read.table(text = x, sep = "?", as.is = TRUE)$V2
    [1] " Peter Parker"
#3

@shuvayan: Inventive use of the read.table! :smile:

@adityashrm21, I don’t know why you wish to use the str_extract_all for a string, as grep() is more suited to this task.

#4

see https://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-devel/library/base/html/grep.html

regexpr returns an integer vector of the same length as text giving the starting position of the first match

now pass this as a value for substr and nchar

see here

x<- "What is your name? Peter Parker"

a=regexpr("\\?",x)
b=nchar(x)
substr(x,a+1,b)

b=nchar(x)
a=regexpr("\?",x)
substr(x,a,b)
[1] “? Peter Parker"
substr(x,a+1,b)
[1] " Peter Parker”