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Partial String Matching

Syntax

match(x, target)

Arguments

x the values to be matched.
table the values to be matched against.

Description

pmatch seeks matches for the elements of its first argument among those of its second. If there is a unique match then the index of the matching value is returned; if multiple matches are found then 0 is returned and if no match is found then NA is returned.

This function is based on Terry Therneau's charmatch S function.