Changelog

Source: NEWS.md

strex 2.1.0

CRAN release: 2026-07-05

BUG FIXES

• Numeric extraction functions (e.g. str_extract_numbers(), str_nth_number(), str_nth_number_before_mth(), str_nth_number_after_mth(), str_extract_non_numerics(), str_nth_non_numeric(), str_split_by_numbers()) no longer error on NA input or on strings with no matching number; they now correctly return NA (#11).

strex 2.0.1

CRAN release: 2024-10-03

BUG FIXES

• Was using str_glue() where str_glue_data() should have been used.

strex 2.0.0

CRAN release: 2024-01-31

BREAKING CHANGES

• The commas argument has been replaced by the more flexible big_mark.

strex 1.6.1

CRAN release: 2023-10-30

BUG FIXES

• Minor documentation fix for str_detect_any() and str_detect_all().

strex 1.6.0

CRAN release: 2023-01-21

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• Remove usage of magrittr’s %<>% operator.
• Now using the new rlang::abort() error message formatting.

strex 1.5.1

CRAN release: 2023-01-14

BUG FIXES

• purrr should not have been in Imports. It is now in Suggests.
• Some lines in stringi-imports.h needed to be uncommented.

strex 1.5.0

CRAN release: 2023-01-05

NEW FEATURES

• str_detect_all() and str_detect_any().

strex 1.4.4

CRAN release: 2022-10-20

BUG FIXES

• Fix for dev version of stringr.

strex 1.4.3

CRAN release: 2022-07-24

BUG FIXES

• Insist on latest, bug-fixed stringi v1.7.8.

strex 1.4.2

CRAN release: 2021-04-18

BUG FIXES

• Remove LazyData from DESCRIPTION (was causing CRAN note).

strex 1.4.1

CRAN release: 2020-10-17

BUG FIXES

• R version 3.5 or greater is needed because INTEGER_GET_REGION is used, which was introduced with R’s ALTREP stuff.

strex 1.4.0

CRAN release: 2020-10-10

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• str_trim_anything() got a speedup.
• str_match_arg() now has better error messaging.

BUG FIXES

• utils was wrongly imported.

strex 1.3.1

CRAN release: 2020-10-02

BUG FIXES

• Fix a garbage collection issue.

strex 1.3.0

CRAN release: 2020-09-25

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• Move from Rcpp to C.

strex 1.2.0

CRAN release: 2019-09-13

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• Include more examples to cover all common functionality.

strex 1.1.1

CRAN release: 2019-06-23

BUG FIXES

• Insist on necessary versions of stringr and processx.
• Fix a C++ sanitizer warning.

strex 1.1.0

CRAN release: 2019-06-15

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• The pattern argument of str_trim_anything() now supports regular expression.

BUG FIXES

• The new configure step opens up the package to people with GCC < 4.9; previously installation failed for them.

strex 1.0.3

CRAN release: 2019-06-04

BUG FIXES

• Make internal function all_equal() more consistent.

strex 1.0.2

CRAN release: 2019-05-28

BUG FIXES

• C++ sanitizer issues.

strex 1.0.1

CRAN release: 2019-05-12

BUG FIXES

• There was a pervasive bug related to handling of zero-length inputs.

strex 1.0.0

CRAN release: 2019-05-04

BREAKING CHANGES

• str_split_by_nums() has been renamed to str_split_by_numbers() for consistency with str_extract_numbers().
• str_get_currencies() has been renamed to str_extract_currencies() and been greatly improved.
• str_get_currency() has been replaced by str_nth_currency() with siblings str_first_currency() and str_last_currency().
• str_match_arg() has been updated to behave more like base::match_arg().

NEW FEATURES

• str_elems() has been added. It is a vectorized version of str_elem().
• The number (and non-numeric) extraction functions can now deal with scientific notation and with comma-separated numbers. This makes str_first_number() more versatile than as.numeric() since as.numeric("1,000") returns NA but str_first_number("1,000") returns the number 1000.

strex 0.1.3

CRAN release: 2018-11-30

BUG FIXES

• Require necessary version of glue.

strex 0.1.2

CRAN release: 2018-10-20

BUG FIXES

• Require necessary version of ore.

strex 0.1.1

CRAN release: 2018-09-20

BUG FIXES

• Allow for unexpected error message on mac.

strex 0.1.0

CRAN release: 2018-08-31

• The first incarnation.