How to extract everything until first occurrence of pattern
To get L0
, you may use
> library(stringr)> str_extract("L0_123_abc", "[^_]+")[1] "L0"
The [^_]+
matches 1 or more chars other than _
.
Also, you may split the string with _
:
x <- str_split("L0_123_abc", fixed("_"))> x[[1]][1] "L0" "123" "abc"
This way, you will have all the substrings you need.
The same can be achieved with
> str_extract_all("L0_123_abc", "[^_]+")[[1]][1] "L0" "123" "abc"