Extract information from paths

Source: R/helpers_stringr.R

Only reexport from fs

extract_dir(x)

extract_ext(x)

extract_file(x)

Arguments

x

character of one or more paths

Value

character

Functions

  • extract_dir: extract directory path

  • extract_ext: extract filename

  • extract_file: extract file extension

See also

To fix information from paths see str_helpers

Other path: str_helpers

Examples

messy_paths
#> [1] "Big_one/folder-foo/file_n.jpg" "folder-foo/File n.jpg"        
#> [3] "folder-foo2/file   5.jpg"      "file.txt"                     
#> [5] "file.jpeg"                     "file.png"                     
#> [7] "file.mom"                     
messy_paths %>% extract_dir()
#> [1] "Big_one/folder-foo" "folder-foo"         "folder-foo2"       
#> [4] "."                  "."                  "."                 
#> [7] "."                 
messy_paths %>% extract_file()
#> [1] "file_n.jpg"   "File n.jpg"   "file   5.jpg" "file.txt"     "file.jpeg"   
#> [6] "file.png"     "file.mom"    
messy_paths %>% extract_ext()
#> [1] "jpg"  "jpg"  "jpg"  "txt"  "jpeg" "png"  "mom" 

# all of this in a tibble
tibble::tibble(paths = messy_paths,
              dir    = extract_dir(paths),
              file   = extract_file(paths),
              ext    = extract_ext(paths))
#> # A tibble: 7 x 4
#>   paths                         dir                file         ext  
#>   <chr>                         <chr>              <chr>        <chr>
#> 1 Big_one/folder-foo/file_n.jpg Big_one/folder-foo file_n.jpg   jpg  
#> 2 folder-foo/File n.jpg         folder-foo         File n.jpg   jpg  
#> 3 folder-foo2/file   5.jpg      folder-foo2        file   5.jpg jpg  
#> 4 file.txt                      .                  file.txt     txt  
#> 5 file.jpeg                     .                  file.jpeg    jpeg 
#> 6 file.png                      .                  file.png     png  
#> 7 file.mom                      .                  file.mom     mom