Given a character string
test_1<-\"abc def,ghi klm\" test_2<-\"abc, def ghi klm\"
I wish to obtain
\"abc\" \"def\" \"
test_1<-"abc def,ghi klm" test_2<-"abc, def ghi klm" key_words <- c("abc","def","ghi") matches <- str_c(key_words, collapse ="|") str_extract_all(test_1, matches) str_extract_all(test_2, matches)