Chapter 10 Strings

Learning Objectives

After completing this chapter, you will be able to:

• Combine, subset, and manipulate strings using stringr functions
• Match patterns in text using regular expressions
• Use character classes, quantifiers, and anchors to build flexible patterns

In Section 2.2, we have introduced the character vector that is consisted of strings. In this Chapter, we will introduce various kinds of operations we can do on strings using the stringr package, which is a subpackage of tidyverse.

At a glance – Chapter ROADMAP

Section 10.1. Basics: Concatenate and subset strings with str_c() and str_sub().
Section 10.2. Regex: Master regular expressions for flexible pattern matching and detection.

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