Extract a portion of a string between two patterns

Source: R/func_strings-extract.R

If a string has more than one match, this will only return the first one.

extract_between(full_string, after_string, before_string, trim_spaces = TRUE)

Arguments

full_string

The full character string to extract from.
after_string

A pattern specifying the string should be extracted after this.
before_string

A pattern specifying the string should be extracted before this.
trim_spaces

logical T/F, if there are any spaces within the extracted string, they will be removed. Default is TRUE.

Value

A string

Examples


extract_between("What does the fox say?", after_string = "What does the", before_string = "say")

#> [1] "fox"