Stringr tips

How many hours have I spent looking how to solve a regex?

A lot!

So here I have some quick notes on things that I have solved before and forget about it pretty often.

How to extract numbers from a string

Sometimes, I need to extract just the numbers that I can find in a string. To achieve this, I can use the following function:

library(stringr)

string_with_numbers <- c("01 uno", "02 dos")

str_extract(string_with_numbers , "\\d+")

## [1] "01" "02"

Extract string between brackets

library(stringr)
library(tibble)
library(dplyr)
library(tidyr)

## 
## Attaching package: 'tidyr'

## The following object is masked from 'package:terra':
## 
##     extract

## The data frames with the column that I need
check <- tribble(
  ~geo,
  "{\"geodesic\":false,\"type\":\"Point\",\"coordinates\":[-79.94739867829001,44.3105986723403]}" , 
  "{\"geodesic\":false,\"type\":\"Point\",\"coordinates\":[-79.94714795170373,44.310596361431216]}",
  "{\"geodesic\":false,\"type\":\"Point\",\"coordinates\":[-79.9468972251475,44.31059404997191]}" , 
  "{\"geodesic\":false,\"type\":\"Point\",\"coordinates\":[-79.9466464986213,44.31059173796237]}" , 
  "{\"geodesic\":false,\"type\":\"Point\",\"coordinates\":[-79.94639577212517,44.3105894254026]}" , 
  "{\"geodesic\":false,\"type\":\"Point\",\"coordinates\":[-79.9461450456591,44.310587112292595]}" 
)

## Solution 1 (Didn't work)
check %>% 
  mutate(test = str_extract(geo, "\\[|\\]") ) %>% 
  select(test)

## # A tibble: 6 × 1
##   test 
##   <chr>
## 1 [    
## 2 [    
## 3 [    
## 4 [    
## 5 [    
## 6 [

# Solution 2 (This one works!)
check %>% 
  mutate(test = str_extract(geo, "\\[(.*?)\\]") ) %>% 
  select(test) %>% 
  separate(col = "test", into = c("lat", "long"), sep = ",") %>% 
  mutate(lat = str_extract(lat, "-?[0-9.]+"),
         long = str_extract(long, "-?[0-9.]+"))

## # A tibble: 6 × 2
##   lat                long              
##   <chr>              <chr>             
## 1 -79.94739867829001 44.3105986723403  
## 2 -79.94714795170373 44.310596361431216
## 3 -79.9468972251475  44.31059404997191 
## 4 -79.9466464986213  44.31059173796237 
## 5 -79.94639577212517 44.3105894254026  
## 6 -79.9461450456591  44.310587112292595