I'm trying to search for a pattern in a text using grepl. The problem is that my pattern is a list of names and my text is also a list of texts of the same length. I would like to build a loop that goes over each row and search for a given name in the corresponding text.
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So for example, in this data:
pat <- c("mary", "john", "anthony")
text <- c("This is a long text about anthony", "This is another long text about john", "This is a final text about mary").
I would like search "mary" in the first text, and then "john" in the second, and finally "anthony" in the third one.