R/bc.R
bc.Rd
Separates string data on whitespace and separating symbols into an array.
bc(s, ..., sep_symbols = ",|", strict = TRUE, convert = TRUE)
string to parse
force later arguments to be set by name
characters to consider separators
logical, if TRUE throw exception on confusing input
logical, if TRUE try to convert from string type to other types
vector of values
Can throw exception on lack of explicit value separators, example: bc('"a""b"')
and non-matching portions.
Whitespace is normalized to spaces. Attempts to split on obvious number format boundaries.
Suggested by Emil Erik Pula Bellamy Begtrup-Bright https://github.com/WinVector/wrapr/issues/12.
bc('1 2 "c", d') # returns c("1", "2", "c", "d")
#> [1] "1" "2" "c" "d"
bc('1 2 3') # returns c(1, 2, 3)
#> [1] 1 2 3
bc('1 2 "3"') # returns c("1", "2", "3")
#> [1] "1" "2" "3"
bc('1,2|3.4') # returns c(1, 2, 3.4)
#> [1] 1.0 2.0 3.4
bc('01 02', convert=FALSE) # returns c("01", "02")
#> [1] "01" "02"