# List-base regex case_when — case_match_regex_list • REDCapCAST
Mimics case_when for list of regex patterns and values. Used for date/time validation generation from name vector. Like case_when, the matches are in order of priority. Primarily used in REDCapCAST to do data type coding from systematic variable naming.

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# List-base regex case_when

Source: `R/doc2dd.R`
`case_match_regex_list.Rd`

Mimics case_when for list of regex patterns and values. Used for date/time validation generation from name vector. Like case_when, the matches are in order of priority. Primarily used in REDCapCAST to do data type coding from systematic variable naming.

## Usage

    case_match_regex_list(data, match.list, .default = NA)

## Arguments

data

  vector

match.list

  list of case matches

.default

  Default value for non-matches. Default is NA.

## Value

vector

## Examples

    case_match_regex_list(
      c("test_date", "test_time", "test_tida", "test_tid"),
      list(date_dmy = "_dat[eo]$", time_hh_mm_ss = "_ti[md]e?$")
    )
    #> [1] "date_dmy"      "time_hh_mm_ss" NA              "time_hh_mm_ss"