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.

From this source text

#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})

Answer 2

We can do

str_extract_all(text, "(?<=#)\\w*(?=#)")[[1]]
#[1] "Pray4Manchester" "ArianaGrande"   

data

text <- "#Pray4Manchester# I hope that #ArianaGrande# will be better soon."