Match a word.

Match a word—a string of word characters (a–z, A–Z, 0–9 or _). This function is looks for tabs with the following expression: \w+

rx_word(.data = NULL)

Arguments

.data	Expression to append, typically pulled from the pipe %>%

Examples

rx_word()
#> [1] "\\w+"

# create an expression
x <- rx_word()

# create inputs
string1 <- "foo_bar"
string2 <- "foo-bar"

# extract matches
regmatches(string1, regexpr(x, string1))
#> [1] "foo_bar"
regmatches(string2, regexpr(x, string2)) # doesn't match -
#> [1] "foo"