Finds the common and unique elements in a character vector.

Source: R/strings.R

Function takes a character string as input and find the common and unique elements. Assumes that the common element is at start of string.

strCommonUnique(string)

Arguments

string

Character vector

Value

list of common and unique strings

Examples

test <- c("Q_1", "Q_2", "Q_3")
strCommonUnique(test)$common
#> [1] "Q_"
strCommonUnique(test)$unique
#> [1] "1" "2" "3"