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extrSpcText

Extract specific text

Description

extrSpcText extracts/cuts text-fragments out of 'txt' following specific anchors 'cutFrom' and 'cutTo'. In case 'cutFrom' not found 'missingAs' will be returned. In case 'cutTo' not found text gets extracted with 'chaMaxEl' characters.

Usage

extrSpcText(
  txt,
  cutFrom = " GN=",
  cutTo = " PE=",
  missingAs = NA,
  exclFromTag = TRUE,
  silent = FALSE,
  callFrom = NULL
)

Arguments

`txt`	character vector to be treated
`cutFrom`	(character) text where to start cutting
`cutTo`	(character) text where to stop cutting
`missingAs`	(character) specific content of output at line/location of 'exclLi'
`exclFromTag`	(logical) to exclude text given in 'cutFrom' from result
`silent`	(logical) suppress messages
`callFrom`	(character) allow easier tracking of message(s) produced

Value

modified character vector

Examples

extrSpcText(c(" ghjg GN=thisText PE=001"," GN=_ PE=",NA,"abcd"))
extrSpcText(c("ABCDEF.3-6","05g","bc.4-5"),cutFr="\\.",cutT="-")

wrMisc

Analyze Experimental High-Throughput (Omics) Data

v1.5.4

GPL-3

Authors

Wolfgang Raffelsberger [aut, cre]

Initial release