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extract substrings before and after a match in r
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get_text_before_after_match_R
#return text after match
a <- "asdfgpopgazelle"
data.table::tstrsplit(a, "pop")[[2]]
"gazelle"
#return all splits
a <- "asdfgpopgazelle"
> data.table::tstrsplit(a, "g")
[[1]]
[1] "asdf"
[[2]]
[1] "pop"
[[3]]
[1] "azelle"
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