Search a data frame column by string

Search a data frame column by string

Usage

search_for(data, column, search, ignore = TRUE, ...)

Arguments

data

<data.frame> or <tibble>

column

<chr> string, column to search

search

<chr> string to search for, can be a regex

ignore

<lgl> ignore case, default is TRUE

...

additional arguments

Value

<data.frame> or <tibble>

See also

Other tidyverse: columns_to_character(), gchop(), glue_chr(), glue_data_chr(), named_group_split()

Examples

(x <- dplyr::tibble(y = 1:10, z = letters[1:10]))
#> # A tibble: 10 × 2
#>        y z    
#>    <int> <chr>
#>  1     1 a    
#>  2     2 b    
#>  3     3 c    
#>  4     4 d    
#>  5     5 e    
#>  6     6 f    
#>  7     7 g    
#>  8     8 h    
#>  9     9 i    
#> 10    10 j    

search_for(data = x, column = "z", search = "[a|j]")
#> # A tibble: 2 × 2
#>       y z    
#>   <int> <chr>
#> 1     1 a    
#> 2    10 j