Regex group capture in R with multiple capture-groups
str_match(), from the stringr package, will do this. It returns a character matrix with one column for each group in the match (and one for the whole match): > s = c(“(sometext :: 0.1231313213)”, “(moretext :: 0.111222)”) > str_match(s, “\\((.*?) :: (0\\.[0-9]+)\\)”) [,1] [,2] [,3] [1,] “(sometext :: 0.1231313213)” “sometext” “0.1231313213” [2,] “(moretext :: 0.111222)” … Read more