Regular Expressions 101

Pro

\w+any word character, repeated at least once

Positive Lookahead(?=:::?)

::the literal text ::

:?optionally matches the literal : (58₁₀ / 72₈ / 3A₁₆)

Global pattern flags

g modifier: global. Finds all matches instead of stopping after the first

Detailed match information will be displayed here automatically.

25 tokens

Regular Expression

\w+(?=:::?)

New

doc_name <-
    officer::read_docx() %>% 
    flextable:::body_add_flextable(table_to_save) %>% 
    print(target = "word.docx")

.libPaths()
.test()

c("a", "b")

package::function()$field

Extraction

doc_name <-
    officer::read_docx() %>% 
    flextable:::body_add_flextable(table_to_save) %>% 
    print(target = "word.docx")

.libPaths()
.test()

c("a", "b")

package::function()$field