Detect the presence/absence of a match at the start/end

str_starts() and str_ends() are special cases of str_detect() that only match at the beginning or end of a string, respectively.

str_starts(string, pattern, negate = FALSE)

str_ends(string, pattern, negate = FALSE)

Arguments

string

Input vector. Either a character vector, or something coercible to one.

pattern

Pattern with which the string starts or ends.

The default interpretation is a regular expression, as described in stringi::about_search_regex. Control options with regex().

Match a fixed string (i.e. by comparing only bytes), using fixed(). This is fast, but approximate. Generally, for matching human text, you'll want coll() which respects character matching rules for the specified locale.

negate

If TRUE, inverts the resulting boolean vector.

Value

A logical vector.

Examples

fruit <- c("apple", "banana", "pear", "pineapple")
str_starts(fruit, "p")
#> [1] FALSE FALSE  TRUE  TRUE
str_starts(fruit, "p", negate = TRUE)
#> [1]  TRUE  TRUE FALSE FALSE
str_ends(fruit, "e")
#> [1]  TRUE FALSE FALSE  TRUE
str_ends(fruit, "e", negate = TRUE)
#> [1] FALSE  TRUE  TRUE FALSE