stringr, str_extract: how to do positive lookbehind?
问题 Very simple problem. I just need to capture some strings using a regex positive lookbehind, but I don't see a way to do it. Here's an example, suppose I have some strings: library(stringr) myStrings <- c("MFG: acme", "something else", "MFG: initech") I want to extract the words which are prefixed with "MFG:" > result_1 <- str_extract(myStrings,"MFG\\s*:\\s*\\w+") > > result_1 [1] "MFG: acme" NA "MFG: initech" That almost does it, but I don't want to include the "MFG:" part, so that's what a