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Created July 24, 2013 18:11
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This function allows you to extract the part of the string that matches the regular expression given as input. For instance, if you have species names and want to extract the gender only, you would type: getmatch("Echinometra mathaei", "^\\w+") # Echinometra
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getmatch.r
getmatch <<- function(x,str2match,...) {
unlist(regmatches(x,regexpr(str2match,x,...))) }
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