Extract a regular expression match

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Use the new stringr package which wraps all the existing regular expression operates in a consistent syntax and adds a few that are missing:

library(stringr)
str_locate("aaa12xxx", "[0-9]+")
#      start end
# [1,]     4   5
str_extract("aaa12xxx", "[0-9]+")
# [1] "12"

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