用grepl全字匹配

Question

I would like to have TRUE FALSE instead of the following. Any suggestion?

testLines <- c("buried","medium-buried")
grepl('\\<buried\\>',testLines)
[1] TRUE TRUE

Answer 1

Perhaps this?

testLines <- c("buried","medium-buried")
grepl('^buried$',testLines)

#[1]  TRUE FALSE

My understanding (and regex is not my forte) is that ^ denotes the start of the string and $ the end.