The %look.for% operator searches the provided metadata environment or metamap object in such an environment for the Regex pattern passed to x.

i %look.for% x

Arguments

i

(object) A metamap object or database environment (e.g., DBOE$database) containing the metamap object

x

(string[]) A vector of REGEX patterns or exact names to use for matching against database object names

Value

A data.table object with the items that were found, if any