Re: [R] Using gregexpr with multiple search elements

2009-02-25 Thread Christos Hatzis
gregexpr("\\at|\\og", text) > -Original Message- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org > [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Corey Sparks > Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 11:50 AM > To: R Help > Subject: [R] Using gregexpr with multiple se

[R] Using gregexpr with multiple search elements

2009-02-25 Thread Corey Sparks
Dear list, I am trying to use gregexpr to see if entries in a dataframe have either of two possible values for a string. here's an example text<-c("fat", "rat", "cat", "dog", "log", "fish") If I just wanted to find if any one of the elements in text match the pattern "at" I would do gregexp