stringi Tips

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1. It is suggested that you use the package stringi instead of string utilities in R base. There are multiple reasons.

   - stringi has consistent namings and signatures
   - the behavior of functions in stringi is more reasonable from engineering perspective
   

Regular Expression

1. Use $1 instead of \\1 to capture the nth capture group, and similarly for other capture groups.