extract string using same pattern in a text using R

Question

I\'m trying to deal with text with R and here is my question.

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#Pray4Manchester# I hope that #ArianaGrande# will be better soon.
         


        

Answer 1

You could use regex to look for results that match text between two hashes that don't contain a space character.

Something like this: ([#]{1}[^\s]+[#]{1})