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Obtain country data matching language first one or more letters

Usage

languageEndsWith(char, full.list = TRUE)

Arguments

char

character to search in languages

full.list

whether to return only name of country or full list

Value

language list or country data list matching parts of a character search on languages

See also

countryStartsWith for country search starting with specified characters, and [countryEndsWith()] for countries that end with a specified characters.

Examples

# task 1: get only language names that ends with "EN" or "en"
# note that the search in case-insensitive
languageEndsWith("eN", full.list = FALSE)
#> [1] "Turkmen"

# task 2: get only language names that ends with "chi"
languageEndsWith("chi", full.list = FALSE)
#> NULL

# task 3: repeat task 2, but return full list for each country with the language
languageEndsWith("sin", full.list = TRUE)
#> NULL

# searching text with no results
languageEndsWith("er", full.list = FALSE)
#> [1] "Arabic, Berber" "Khmer"