Count the number of matches in a string.
Vectorised over string and pattern.
str_count(string, pattern = "")
string |
Input vector. Either a character vector, or something coercible to one. |
pattern |
Pattern to look for. The default interpretation is a regular expression, as described
in stringi::stringi-search-regex. Control options with
Match a fixed string (i.e. by comparing only bytes), using
Match character, word, line and sentence boundaries with
|
An integer vector.
stringi::stri_count() which this function wraps.
str_locate()/str_locate_all() to locate position
of matches
fruit <- c("apple", "banana", "pear", "pineapple")
str_count(fruit, "a")
str_count(fruit, "p")
str_count(fruit, "e")
str_count(fruit, c("a", "b", "p", "p"))
str_count(c("a.", "...", ".a.a"), ".")
str_count(c("a.", "...", ".a.a"), fixed("."))Please choose more modern alternatives, such as Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox.