Remove a prefix or suffix — rm.prefix • suppr

Remove a prefix or suffix from a character vector.

Usage

rm.prefix(x, prefix)

rm.suffix(x, suffix)

Arguments

x: A character vector.
prefix, suffix: A single string.

Value

x is returned with the specified prefix or suffix removed from each element where it was present.

Details

Elements without the specified prefix or suffix will remain unchanged. An error will occur if prefix or suffix is NA.

Note

Both x and prefix/suffix are translated to UTF-8 before processing.

See also

startsWith, endsWith

Examples

x <- c("x_apple", "x_banana", "x_cherry")
rm.prefix(x, "x_")
#> [1] "apple"  "banana" "cherry"
rm.suffix(x, "_cherry")
#> [1] "x_apple"  "x_banana" "x"