My data:
d1 <- "GET /api/dir/100%ABC/user/prints/abcd1111/file"
d2 <- "GET /api/dir/100%ABC/prints/efgh1111/file"
I want to extract the string:user/prints or prints part from my data.
I know how to extract between 2 certain strings like:
str_extract(d1, "(?<=/dir/)(.*)(?=%ABC)")
to get the number 100.
How to extract after %ABC/ and end with prints(contains prints) so I can get :user/prints or prints from same script.
In base R, we can use sub to extract everything after "%ABC" till "prints".
sub(".*%ABC/(.*prints).*", "\\1", d1)
#[1] "user/prints"
sub(".*%ABC/(.*prints).*", "\\1", d2)
#[1] "prints"
Not exactly elegant, but this should do:
paste0(str_extract(d1, "(?<=%ABC)(.*)(?=prints)"),"prints")
# [1] "/user/prints"
paste0(str_extract(d2, "(?<=%ABC)(.*)(?=prints)"),"prints")
# [1] "/prints"
We can use gsub from base R
gsub(".*ABC/|/\\w+/\\w+$", "", d1)
#[1] "user/prints"
gsub(".*ABC/|/\\w+/\\w+$", "", d2)
#[1] "prints"
