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Extracting age and gender again

You can now also take another look at your pattern for pulling out age and gender from the injury narratives. In the last chapter you took two steps to extract the pattern and then pull it apart. Take a go at doing it in one step!

This exercise is part of the course

String Manipulation with stringr in R

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Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

# narratives has been pre-defined
narratives

# Add capture() to get age, unit and sex
pattern <- optional(DGT) %R% DGT %R%  
  optional(SPC) %R% or("YO", "YR", "MO") %R%
  optional(SPC) %R% or("M", "F")

# Pull out from narratives
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