Extracting unique numbers from string in R

Question

I have a list of strings which contain random characters such as:

list=list()
list[1] = \"djud7+dg[a]hs667\"
list[2] = \"7fd*hac11(5)\"
list[3] = \"2tu,g7gka         


        

Answer 1

Check out the str_extract_numbers() function from the strex package.

pacman::p_load(strex)
list=list()
list[1] = "djud7+dg[a]hs667"
list[2] = "7fd*hac11(5)"
list[3] = "2tu,g7gka5"
charvec <- unlist(list)
print(charvec)
#> [1] "djud7+dg[a]hs667" "7fd*hac11(5)"     "2tu,g7gka5"
str_extract_numbers(charvec)
#> [[1]]
#> [1]   7 667
#> 
#> [[2]]
#> [1]  7 11  5
#> 
#> [[3]]
#> [1] 2 7 5
unique(unlist(str_extract_numbers(charvec)))
#> [1]   7 667  11   5   2

Created on 2018-09-03 by the reprex package (v0.2.0).