R: sf_substr

sf_substr {stringfish} | R Documentation

## sf_substr

### Description

Extracts substrings from a character vector

### Usage

    sf_substr(x, start, stop)

### Arguments

`x` | A character vector
`start` | The begining to extract from
`stop` | The end to extract from

### Details

This works the same way as 'substr', but in addition allows negative indexing. Negative indicies count backwards from the end of the string, with -1 being the last character.

### Value

A stringfish vector of substrings

### See Also

substr

### Examples

    x <- c("fa\xE7ile", "hello world")
    Encoding(x) <- "latin1"
    x <- sf_iconv(x, "latin1", "UTF-8")
    sf_substr(x, 4, -1) # extracts from the 4th character to the last
    ## [1] "ile"  "lo world"

[Package stringfish version 0.12.1 Index]