this example from here (r- grepl to find multiple strings exists) helps me match combinations of words:
pat <- c("instance", "percentage", "element", "character")
longperl <- grepl(paste0("(?=.*", pat, ")", collapse=""), Text2, perl=TRUE)
However I'm trying to match the word table (along with other words) and using the above is also returning words that contain the pattern table, e.g., marketable.
How do I force the grepl snippet to only include the whole word table and not where table is part of another word?
I've tried these without success:
pat <- c(" table", "instance", "percentage", "element", "character") # add literal space before `table`
pat <- c("\\stable", "instance", "percentage", "element", "character") # add whitespace regex before `table`
