str_count: counting occurences in string variable

[graceahey]

Trying to count occurrences of various medications in an open response variable- using the below, and some are not being counted-

df_linelist$malaria_meds_prescribed <- str_count(tolower(df_linelist$medication_prescribed2),"ALU Adult | Amodiaquine | Anti-Malaria | Anti-Malaria drugs | Anti-Malaria injection | Artemether and Lumefantrin (Coartem) | Artesunate +Lumfrantrime | Artesunate | Artesunate Injection | Artesunate injection | chloroquine | chloroquine sirop | Coartem | Coartem (Artemether and Lumefantrin) | I.V Artesunate/ Artesunate injections | Plaquenil | Quinine tabs | 	
chloroquine,")

[jrkrideau]

I think we need more information and some sample data. Seee

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[SimeonPaynter]

Without seeing some sample data, I can only take a guess. The function str_count(input, "Regex pattern") uses Regex which means your input has to match exactly the Regex string. 1) You could try changing the prescriptions in the Regex string to be all lowercase. and 2) Check the spaces surrounding " | "... For example, "alu adult | amodiaquine | anti-malaria " does not equal "alu adult|amodiaquine|anti-malaria".