match first consecutive list of capitalized words in string
Tena koe Jonas
Something like the following may help, although you should probably read the help on regexpr regarding locales.
Names <- c("filia Maria", "vidua Joh Dirck Kleve (oo 02.02.1732)", "Bernardus Engelb Franciscus Linde j.u.Doktor referendarius sereniss Judex et gograven Rheinensis")
Names1 <- sub('^[0-9a-z]* ', '', Names)
Names1
ttReg <- regexpr(' [^A-Z]', Names1)
ifelse (ttReg>0, substring(Names1, 1, regexpr(' [^A-Z]', Names1)-1), Names1)
Incidentally, it is not good practice to call your objects 'names' since that is a function in R.
HTH ....
Peter Alspach
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Sent: Wednesday, 9 November 2011 1:49 a.m.
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Subject: [R] match first consecutive list of capitalized words in
string
Dear R-Helpers,
this is my first post ever to a mailing list, so please feel free to
point out any missunderstandings on my side regarding the conventions
of this mailing list.
My problem:
Assuming the following character vector is given:
names <- c("filia Maria", "vidua Joh Dirck Kleve (oo 02.02.1732)",
"Bernardus Engelb Franciscus Linde j.u.Doktor referendarius sereniss
Judex et gograven Rheinensis")
Is there a regular expression matching the first consecutive list of
capitalized words in a single characterstring ("Maria", "Joh Dirck
Kleve", "Bernardus Engelb Franciscus Linde")?
This expression would very reliably seperate the person names from the
additional information in my historic church register transcription.
Thank you very much for your effort,
Jonas
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